Not sure how impressive this was. My recollection of 1996 was very much a lot of talk about Java terminals, e.g. machines dedicated only to running some dumb/th

Not sure how impressive this was. My recollection of 1996 was very much a lot of talk about Java terminals, e.g. machines dedicated only to running some dumb/thin client with backend servers doing all the work/persistence. That was a "future" that was only supposed to be a couple years out.