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Shoulda listened (lemy.lol)
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[–] 21 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Everyone has forgotten java applets+ java servlets combo. I have no idea why it didn't survive, but if it would have, it'd defeated PHP (in amount of vulnerabilities ofc)

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  • [–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    I was told in school that Java applets were the future and they made us take a class that focused heavily on them. I did make a few games in applets, but they were always janky and I am glad they are dead.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    I had to remove the applet-based server architecture when moving java 11->17.

    The authors thought that it would be the right decision to accept code from users as applets

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    That's both hilarious and scary. Scarlarious, if you will.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

    Now comes the scariest part. We removed this in early 2024

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child)

    Applets were killed by Flash, which then became obsolete.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Applets were killed before that due to repeated severe security issues and Sun fucking around and not making them good in my recollection. Flash was just easiest applets with no Java and died for much of the same reason a decade later.

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