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By the early years of Google applets were already pretty much dead: https://www.javaworld.com/article/2076251/core-java/applets--still-essential-to-java.html h
by danieldk 9y ago
By the early years of Google applets were already pretty much dead:
https://www.javaworld.com/article/2076251/core-java/applets--still-essential-to-java.html https://www.javaworld.com/article/2076251/core-java/applets-...
(Note that the article is from 2000.)
Remember that Google was already doing AJAX in Gmail in 2004, years before V8.
- gsnedders 9y agoAnd V8 was first released in 2008. Java applets were pretty much completely gone from the web by this point. The only competition on the web, from plugins, at that point was Flash (okay, Silverlight deserves a footnote, but little more).
- adamrezich 9y agoV8 is ten years old?! How time flies...
- vanderZwan 9y agoI have the opposite response: only a decade old? Same with YouTube actually, I can't really remember what the Web was like without video streaming
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- icebraining 9y agoThere was streaming before. You installed Real Player so you couBuffering...