Well, in the early 00's when Firefox was starting to become a thing and it introduced the usage of tabs, it really mattered whether something was a local app or

Well, in the early 00's when Firefox was starting to become a thing and it introduced the usage of tabs, it really mattered whether something was a local app or something that's primarily the contents of another server fetched and displayed/processed on your computer. It was useful to think of the browser be the "Internet remote window". Now, since basically everything is an Internet app, perhaps the distinction between local and remote isn't too important anymore for most people.