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Re:Ask HN: Why didn't the early web support more client side... by eqvinox on Friday July 30, 2021 @04:15PM (#28011906)
> JavaScript, as I recall, was the answer to Java being crashy and slow on 50 MHz processors.

[citation needed]

Having lived through that period of time, I do not recall Java applets and JavaScript ever being considered to be in the same category / trying to solve similar problems.

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