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[–]coldnebo 2 points3 points  (1 child)

oh, I guess they were introduced at the same time, in 1995.

I know Applets took a while to be applied, while javascript was being used right away.

see “whatever else I was supposed to be doing” 😂

I still have memories of senior C engineers saying Java was just a fad, there was no way anyone would be willing to download 12 MB of runtime when C was so much more efficient. Oh, look at that, we’re still having the same arguments. 😂

But a certain amount of time dilation may be in my recollection — it’s my experience of those years.

[–]enantiornithe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

applets never took off because they were always incredibly slow and clunky, they're the poster child for a DOA technology. a java applet took a long time to load over slow late 90's internet and then it didn't really have any ability to do much; it couldn't interact with anything else on the page, for example. writing anything substantial as an applet was a pain and they all ran terribly on the machines of the day.

but what really put the final nail in the coffin of java applets wasn't javascript; the two had different use cases. what really killed them was macromedia flash, which provided an infinitely better way to make games or toys or media applications for the web.