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> (google search, web mail, amazon, online banking and investing, etc.) The transformative power of all of those (excepting maybe GMail) was realized in the fo
by ihnorton 14y ago
> (google search, web mail, amazon, online banking and investing, etc.)
The transformative power of all of those (excepting maybe GMail) was realized in the form of cgi-generated webpages (click, refresh). Performance is not a requirement for those applications, whereas it is very much a requirement for interactive games. 20 years might be a little too harsh, but only a little.