It can’t break out from your browser and put things on your computer, but within the sandboxed confines of a web page it can access all sorts of powerful functionality that makes possible everything from Nyan Cat to Gmail (and, when you’re all nyaned-out, Chrome Experiments.) Javascript is a programming language that can be embedded into HTML web pages and, perhaps more than any other technology, it’s what turned the web from a collection of documents you could read into a collection of applications you can use.

What if you reached out to grab one apple but when you opened your hand you had a pear? Or a piranha? Pastejacking with Javascript Repetition teaches us that what goes in to our hand when we Ctrl+C (grab something) comes out of our hand when we Ctrl+V (let it go). It’s the cyber-grab you cyber-learn in your cyber-infancy and never cyber-forget because you endlessly cyber-repeat it. This side of haptic gloves, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V is as close as we can get to reaching out and grabbing something off the web. Put away your wget and curl, your SOAP clients and WSDLs, WebDAV servers, REST APIs and JSON callbacks when it comes to moving data off websites and on to your computer the sticky stuff that greases the wheels is copy and paste.

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