"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." It gives you snapshot into what developers thought about web development in the early to mid 2000's.

"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it." It gives you snapshot into what developers thought about web development in the early to mid 2000's. Bandwidth and processor speed was in short supply. Early web app's would bog down the average machine. And our ISP (internet service provider for those who may not know that acronym) charged us by the minute of usage, not by the month. Desktop clients (games and email) would download a local copy of just the data and cache it. Many of these were applications were set to dial in the ISP, pull your information, and then disconnect. I remember a chess client that could be set up to dial in to the ISP every minute and then disconnect so that you might make it under the 60 seconds charge. That was cure for bandwidth. And the local clients were optimized for your machine so yo got faster everything. You actually see the same thing going on with tablets and phone. Sure you can use Facebook through Chrome. But its slow and eats us your mobile data cap. But if you install the app its a lot faster, richer experience. And it only download the data it needs once without constantly reload the same contents over and over again.