Over a decade of circular "web apps are better for the subset of problems webapps are good at" tautologies.

Web apps weren't so easy to make back then, so standalone apps were the norm. Shortly before 2009 a lot of the web apps were Java or Adobe Flash, and 2009 was part of the transition period where platforms were at war with that stuff but open-web alternatives weren't mature yet.

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mwkaufma 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah I know I was there -- also today's wasteful "open-web alternatives" wouldn't fly anyway, because I recall even during the XP era having min-specs of, like, 800mhz/512mb

	▲	traderj0e an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, they were like "Flash is too slow" then the replacement was 5x slower