From: jason@slimes.ca   
      
   KotAnon wrote:   
   > rbowman  writes:   
   >   
   >   
   >>On Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:57:20 -0600, KotAnon wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>I share the hatred for Javascript, is surprising how a shitty language   
   >>>got to be so important, sometimes I wonder if this web bloat its just   
   >>>pushed to complement all the planned obsolescece business, since the   
   >>>2000's machines are pretty compentent even nowadays with the proper   
   >>>software.   
   >>   
   >>I doubt Eich had any idea of what it would become. Computing history is   
   >>filled with unintended consequences, including the whole x86 progression.   
   >>Possibly the end of Java applets gave it a leg up.   
   >   
   > That and Apple killing Flash for good, I do not think Flash was horrible   
   > on its own, it was a nice tool and fun for artistic endevours but I   
   > hated with passion that damn plug-in; it was security nightmare I had to   
   > deal with at work.   
      
   Remember 'futresplash' on MSN back in the early 80s?   
      
   MS couldn't do it on their own, so they killed it in the browser.  The   
   MSN browser had the futuresplash in it...   
      
   Futrure splash being Flash.  ( :)  )   
      
   Slimes being slimes lol...   
      
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