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user-inactivated · 4285 days ago · link · · parent · post: Is there anything you do on the internet now that was impossible 10 years ago?
I do a lot of web programming, so I get to use Web Sockets, Web Workers, WebGL (although I don't really know much about WebGL, it's there if I want to use it), and Node.js. I'm pretty excited about WebRTC, especially the pure data channels, but that's not entirely standardized yet, so it doesn't exactly apply to the question. In the actual ways I use the Internet, I agree with minimum_wage, nothing's really changed. Then again, Ajax/Comet is more widespread of a technique. Oh, and gmail.com went live in 2004, so that counts for something.