I was a very early adopter of java in the browser and we compared shockwave (Macromedia/Adobe Director) with java and despite java being so allegedly ahead of i

I was a very early adopter of java in the browser and we compared shockwave (Macromedia/Adobe Director) with java and despite java being so allegedly ahead of its time, shockwave was far better in all respects (speed, functionality, size, spinup time, user experience). And shockwave was awful (it was rendered irrelevant by Flash, which rose on its coat tails (SWF stands for "shockwave flash", although the two had nothing in common).