AJAX in 5 minutes using jQuery (lovehateubuntu.blogspot.com)

Why was that upvoted? Somebody discovers ten-year old technologies? How about "Coredump in 15 seconds using C" then?

Loading up http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.get/ and skipping to the examples is, I think, informative enough.

This is Hacker News, not a My First Javascript Blog.

I'd rather read a "Crossbrowser websockets in 5 minutes" article

Kind of lost credibility in the first sentence. The only reason Ajax is so simple now is because libraries like Jquery simplify the complex problems of cross-browser compatibility with a simple, common Api. This is all possible thanks to all those long confusing posts on Ajax that the author doesn't get.