In your view, what does tech advancement mean though? Its easier to discuss data, rather than argue over opinion. We did get better hardware, better client soft

In your view, what does tech advancement mean though? Its easier to discuss data, rather than argue over opinion. We did get better hardware, better client software from other vendors, etc. Or are you limiting innovation to mean they didn't improve their browser? Personally, I think the hardware wasn't ready in the 90s for full blown web-apps. Just look at the computing requirements of most websites today. For the hardware that I had in the 90s, I could barely play mp3's and run 1-2 apps without the audio skipping.