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Personally not a fan of Windows 95 in the browser, however the browser stoped being a “document reader” a decade ago it’s the only universel, sandbox runtime, and everything is moving in that direction ... safe code. WASM isnt a worst VM; it’s a diffrent trade off: portable, fast start, capability scoped compute without shiping a OS. Raw device still have their place (servers). If you need safe distribution + performance thats “good enough” WASM in the browser is going to be the future of client.


A decade ago? Gmail was launched in 2004, 21 years ago.


XMLHttpRequest was part of IE5 in 1999 as an ActiveXObject. Outlook Web team built it a year earlier.


Not to mention Java applets which is how you would do this sort of thing in the early 2000s




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