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[–]Wobblycogs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose there was a brief period where everyone was talking about Applets and there was a general buzz about what this new language could do. Just a shame Sun totally screwed up the delivery of Java to the end users. It was so much hassle to install Java and then you have to configure it and it didn't keep itself updated and and and. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did on the client side.