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Absolutely. I remember we build a unimaginably brittle application many years ago, I think it was running on Windows XP and glued together a complex system with COM calls into this single page webapp even before react was a thing. It was build on a very small budget, serving the core business of a very tiny company.

Like maybe 8 years later I found out it was still humming along happily, without really even a sysadmin attending to it, on a single workstation using consumer hardware, servicing the company that had grown tenfold in size.

It blew my mind it still just worked all these years.



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