"Today’s consumers though have significantly higher standards than the original users of the web. Consumers want immersive experiences, well-designed pages with

"Today’s consumers though have significantly higher standards than the original users of the web. Consumers want immersive experiences, well-designed pages with fonts, graphics, photos, and videos coming together into a compelling format. T hat “quality” costs enormous sums in engineering and design talent, not to mention massively increasing bandwidth and storage costs." Really? I thought "consumers" just want another shot of dopamine fueled bullshit, prettily packaged of course but crap nonetheless. The realization that so much "engineering and design talent" goes wasted for this bullshit reminds me of what I said of - when I was 8 years old, 8 years. and people call me a cynical but I softened up loads since then! - the engineers sweating it out to run the Italian national broadcasting infrastructure. All that effort just to run a program the whole Sunday afternoon where a blondie that became famous for showing her thighs would ask people calling in from all over Italy, how many peas there were in a big glass jar: https://youtu.be/tRZ5y9seiLA https://youtu.be/tRZ5y9seiLA Of course they were waiting for the nuclear holocaust any day at that time, some maybe even wishing for it, given the situation...