I think it would be difficult for anyone that currently develops software for the web to truly get that whole era. 4k of memory.... 4k. I have people telling me

I think it would be difficult for anyone that currently develops software for the web to truly get that whole era. 4k of memory.... 4k. I have people telling me that I'm prematurely optimizing things all the time. "Memory is cheap". If they knew they had 4k, every step of the way would be an optimization. All variables would be named a letter. No garbage collection because we'd be mallocing every single byte and mfreeing it asap. I really am wracking my brain to think of a concept that we have that we could have had in the 80's. Most of the greatest things are because we had CPU cycles and memory to burn.