The disparity is that an ERP system that managed the customers, suppliers, production and employees of a multi million dollar business was a smaller executable

The disparity is that an ERP system that managed the customers, suppliers, production and employees of a multi million dollar business was a smaller executable than a single blog page nowadays that does nothing more than present information on a screen for someone to read. The ratio of computing power & code size versus the meaningful work done _with_ it seems to be out of kilter somewhat.