When I first looked at Google Docs, it reminded me of the desktop office suites I had used back in the early 1990s. The core functionality was, and still is, q

When I first looked at Google Docs, it reminded me of the desktop office suites I had used back in the early 1990s. The core functionality was, and still is, quite limited. In some cases it's still inferior to what those early office suites offered. The ability to access and share documents over a network is nothing new. We did it all the time back then. There was even software back then that enabled collaborative editing of documents, in real-time. For all the hype we hear about how great JavaScript is as a programming language, and how great web apps are, we just don't see that translating to improved software. When these web apps don't offer anything beyond what we had with desktop software decades ago (and in many cases are even worse), it's hard to get excited about them, and it's impossible to consider them to be "amazing".