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Re:Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5 by ihnorton on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @06:33PM (#5295824)
> (google search, web mail, amazon, online banking and investing, etc.)

The transformative power of all of those (excepting maybe GMail) was realized in the form of cgi-generated webpages (click, refresh). Performance is not a requirement for those applications, whereas it is very much a requirement for interactive games. 20 years might be a little too harsh, but only a little.

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