Paul Graham says:

The scary thing about platforms is that there are always some that seem to outsiders to be fine, responsible choices and yet, like Windows in the 90s, will destroy you if you choose them. Java applets were probably the most spectacular example. This was supposed to be the new way of delivering applications. Presumably it killed just about 100% of the startups who believed that.

That’s sad but true. The platform that could have become dominant for online in-browser application was flashed down the toliet. And still with Java 6 Java applets look like hacks in the browser, with a long startup time, freezing the browser and so on.

It’s a pity.

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