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And 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 t

And 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 ago
V8 is ten years old?! How time flies...
- vanderZwan 9y ago
  I 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 ago
    There was streaming before. You installed Real Player so you couBuffering...