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Java Applets. They were portable, they were in the www. Also i like the Java language.

I dunno how a company can fail with such a good product.

I assume the problem was Oracles security model: Allow the app todo everything? no?! then i won't start. Yes?! ok i can do everything!

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There was a point in time they were acceptable, but that was too long after DHTML/AJAX was good enough for the simple things, and Flash for the flashy things.

The first iterations were so incredibly slow, bloated and foreign that I would usually close the page after 10 secs or so when the applet was still initializing.

It’s ok to like them and miss them - they did give us Minecraft and stuff. But they were dead long before oracle and long before they were acceptable.

applets were long dead before oracle came into the picture

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