[bullen]

"So Netscape thought they could do a similar thing for their navigator browser that, if they could get people programming in the same way that they did on HyperCard, on the browser, but now they can have photographs and color and maybe sound effects, it could be a lot more interesting, and you can’t do that in Java."

It's like the man never tried. Try a Java enabled browser: https://www.wikihow.com/Enable-Java-in-Firefox

Just as a reminder Minecraft (the most sold game in history) started out as an Applet.

Applets where not horrible because of the underlying technology, they where horrible because people made bad things with it, just like J2EE was a bad thing people made with J2SE.

But sometimes, rarely, people would make beautiful things with J2SE and J2ME and those are now removed from history forever under the banner of security like everything else that is good in life.