[saurik]

This author seems shocked by this turn of events--with websites trying to be app platforms with embedded web views of websites--as if they are a recent phenomenon... have we all forgotten the (thankfully pretty short) time 15 years ago where everything that mattered suddenly had to be a Facebook app?

[paxys]

And 15 years before that when most internet users would launch apps from an AOL portal.

[aliqot]

With browsers trying to obscure URLs now, we're also headed back to AOL keywords, along with the walled garden of our firewalls.

[dustbitying]

I remember the thankfully now extinct, era of browser toolbar add-ons... yikes