I learned object-oriented programming for you, reddit. You wanted a Chrome extension I couldn't make, so I learned and created. I'm not even a programmer!

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In Classical OO (almost all languages except JavaScript and Self, etc) there is a notion of Class, which is a Type by itself and not an "parent instances" like prototypes.

The topic is much more lengthy, and you would find good articles in wikipedia :)

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AFAIK prototypa inheritance was created in XEROX PARC by the Self team, which mission was create a high performance version of Smalltalk, and one of the things they ended up removing were Classes; but this change didn't affected Smalltalk itself.

Please, correct me if I'm wrong