Typical X terminals ran xclock and xterm back in the day and not much else. Pretty cool for the time though. I remember lan gaming with friends in the 90s somet

Typical X terminals ran xclock and xterm back in the day and not much else. Pretty cool for the time though. I remember lan gaming with friends in the 90s sometimes turned into hacking sessions. I would sometimes have a few Mosaic browsers run remotely off my system over 10Base2. Given how slow the dialup modem was downloading html X wasn't the bottle neck. Todays modern desktops with compositing and rendering libraries that can target hardware acceleration and run games and visualisation software on opengl or vulkan aren't well served by network transparency and the X extension model. The sad truth about X network transparency is that it generally worked better to write to a local screen and then send the screen updates over some other protocol like vnc or nx.