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Re:Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book by blencdr on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @12:59AM (#17906758)
It's 2018 and we're back in 1998 where website proudly showed "Optimized for Internet Explorer".
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Re:Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book by favadi on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @02:04AM (#17906943)
In 1998 sites might looks bad but at least user can still read the content. In 2018, some sites just refuses to work for anything but Google Chrome.
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Re:Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book by jrockway on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @04:11AM (#17907432)
In 1998 you had to be running Windows. Now you can run any OS, even if the browser you have to use for a certain site isn't your favorite. It's an improvement.

People have always wanted to use "the web" as an application platform. It didn't work that well in 1998, but it's pretty good now. Progress has been made.

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Re:Show HN: Select Star SQL, an interactive SQL book by netcraft on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:45AM (#17908960)
The difference is these are standard features, albeit ones that are just coming out.
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