[galkk]

It was truly insane. I still remember seeing in my book example of container that could host excel inside of my program and save files etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding

I often think about many things that were explored in that time as Birds of paradise. The desktop as it was seen then was mostly solved, and new challenges of internet didn't yet materialized - many engineers need to do something. So they started to do very weird things

[whizzter]

Totally different things, distribution of objects is stupid but as a USER I do love what OLE and it's descendants (and what's inside f.ex. Open/Libreoffice) actually provides in terms of actually working plugin API's.

The best example of OLE the ideas that OLE enabled (even if not implemented by it anymore?) is how you can embed spreadsheets and drawings into a Word document, it becomes super useful for me doing my annual report since I can stick a proper spreadsheet that has automatic calculations in the middle of running text.

(Would I be fond of having to implement all of it? Probably not, and there was also probably many stupid usages of it but for what it was for initially it was a win)