> “It must have been a really exciting time to be involved!” It seems kind of hard to believe today, but most of the excitement in 1995-98 was around Java appl

> “It must have been a really exciting time to be involved!” It seems kind of hard to believe today, but most of the excitement in 1995-98 was around Java applets. To a lot of people it seemed that the interesting interactive stuff would be delivered in Java, and HTML was just a basic document format that was destined to become primarily an export target for tools like Frontpage or Word. Browser vendors were adding junk features like the <blink> and <marquee> tags, which didn’t improve the perception that Java is a real platform while HTML is ad hoc document glue.