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I was also puzzled by this one. Does he mean Java applets maybe?

• midasuni 4y ago
  That’s exactly it, and led to activex in response.
• mtrower 4y ago
  Yes, they were a really big deal at the time, before security concerns came along and sunk them.
  • kaba0 4y ago
    There was nothing inherently unsafe about Java Applets that could not have been fixed, security was simply not that important in the era for browsers.
    • sangnoir 4y ago
      Browsers didn't even have sandboxes then: fixing would have taken decades, and we still get sandbox escape vulns.
  • 72deluxe 4y ago
    I remember applets being used for roll-over buttons on web pages and always knowing that an applet was being used because Internet Explorer 4 hung when loading the page, waiting for the JVM to fire up (with much disk churning). Kind of nostalgic for it!