[cturner]

Thanks. I have had a similar experience: when I was a teenager I helped with stock-take at a warehouse - once a year, for several years. I saw ladies doing data entry to terminals that were hooked up to an application running from another city on an IBM System/36 mini. They'd get ahead of the screen refreshes, but the UART diligently remembered each keystroke, and they'd power through. When I started out in my career I forgot all of this. I had to convert an existing 4D application a business loved for a multi-user application. I built an intricate system that was web only, with some javascript caching, accessed over a latent connection. The staff had a horrible time with this for several years. It was ultimately abandoned, and they moved to a paper system. I was uncomfortable with the memory but the penny didn't drop until I got into roguelike development. Huge regret - I should have remembered my time in the warehouse. If I had my time again I'd design most of the interaction in a termal as described above. The web is a toy.