I think there is a lot of evidence that these days the technology and performance is in almost all cases much better than needed. Large parts of the Internet a

I think there is a lot of evidence that these days the technology and performance is in almost all cases much better than needed. Large parts of the Internet are essentially nothing more than shipping text to users. Yet almost everyone doing this does so with hundreds of kilobytes of javascript. There's an almost crazy tendency to stuff all kinds of functionality into it that nobody asked for (e.g. news pages showing popups that a new item appeared on the startpage). Pretty much all of that would work with 1998s Internet without a whole lot of loss. Youtube is a more extreme example, but even there: The resolutions they support today are probably irrelevant for more than 90% of the content.