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Google, I Was Kidding... Honest!
Last year, I published a widely unread set of what I thought were humorous predictions for the technology world in 2007. One of those items titled "AJAX 2.0" stated that Google would create a technology that makes it possible for web applications to access the local resources on the user computer, thereby recreating ActiveX. This was an attempt at a joke aimed at the fervor with which the development industry jumped on the AJAX bandwagon after the technology had been around for years.