not really though? Look at figma; look at stuff like Miro. Even Google Docs are getting better.

Discord came out of nowhere and now owning its space.

The one that has stagnated is GMail I guess; I think they have too much legacy stuff that they cannot cut, so it’s hard to innovate.

>Look at figma; look at stuff like Miro. Even Google Docs are getting better.

It's amazing what they have achieved within that constrained platform but I was using vector graphics tools, image editors, word processors and spreadsheets in the eighties and nineties.

Some things have changed of course, a wider range of formats, easier collaboration online but there is nothing fundamentally new about this stuff.

Where you able to collaborate in real time, easily share mock ups that are editable with people who care, etc?

Yes, of course you could do all these these things in the 80s, but the added features today are far beyond what was possible then

I did mention that in the last sentence.

Yeah, those are some of the most exciting things going on in web apps and nobody really cares.

Did you read the story yesterday on the demise of Freshmeat[1]? User bloopernova started a great thread on how exciting it was to watch that site for new software.

Before that time, in the 70s and 80s, there were clubs where people would meet up to talk about computers and software with each other. A new version of Google Docs is about 1% as amazing as getting Electric Pencil running on your TRS-80 or Syncalc going on your Atari 800.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30586224

grist? airtable? those types of apps just seem like an evolution of spreadsheets