Real Player Java 💎

Every time you watch a YouTube video in your browser without installing a plugin, you are standing on the shoulders of those clunky, stuttering, 20kbps Java applets.

Java promised to fix that. Sun Microsystems had spent years selling the world on "Write Once, Run Anywhere." Java applets could run inside any browser with a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), without native code, without admin rights. real player java

But there’s a forgotten chapter in that story: . Every time you watch a YouTube video in