Java applets and the loss of browser-based demonstrations |

Dead Internet Theory: Java applets once turned browsers into a place where physics, chemistry, and math demonstrations actually ran. When browsers dropped the plugin, that one-click access went away — and what survives now depends on downloads, ports, and reconstruction.

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By Switchboard Tech Services · Originally published 2026-09-10

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