Naturally I was skeptical, but I went to see it anyway. It was a prototype, but it
worked. And it largely preserved the user experience that you??™d expect from a heavier
application with drag-and-drop functionality; streaming updates to news, quotes, and
charts; and advanced visualization of data. If anything, it was almost superior to the
heavy desktops we were using!
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And, it was all built in DHTML, JavaScript, DHTML behaviors, and a lot of server-side
functionality using Microsoft-based server products. It was pretty revolutionary.
In fact, it was too revolutionary??”and it was too hard for management to take a risk
on it because it was so beyond their understanding of how applications should work and
how the market would accept it. (To be fair, part of their decision was based on my report
of concerns about how well the streaming part would scale, but that was nothing that
couldn??™t be fixed!)
But then something terrible happened: September 11, 2001. On that fateful day, a
group of individuals turned airliners into missiles, crashing into the World Trade Center
and the Pentagon, and killing thousands of people.
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