I am amazed that it is 2016 and people talk about sub-second page loading times as if it is an accomplishment to be proud of. That it is an accomplishment of a

I am amazed that it is 2016 and people talk about sub-second page loading times as if it is an accomplishment to be proud of. That it is an accomplishment of a sort (in contrast to the depressing reality of bloated websites everywhere) shows just how badly wrong we have gone. Maybe we should force web devs to go back to dialup; then we'd get sites that have the performance of http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html again.