Before HTML5, application data was stored in?

Question

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Answer 1

Web data was stored in Local Storage

Answer 2

Local Storage was introduced with HTML5.

The only options for application data before HTML5 were server side sessions, server side databases, or client side cookies. It was very limited before browsers started supporting HTML5.

Answer 3

Before HTML5, application data had to be stored in cookies, included in every server request