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Headline in alternate universe: "With the powerful computers available in the mid-late 2010s, it is now practical to browse an international web of documents, f

Headline in alternate universe: "With the powerful computers available in the mid-late 2010s, it is now practical to browse an international web of documents, from your own home!" Seriously - just this increase is 2x the total memory of a computer I used to browse the internet 20 years ago. People, including programmers, seriously misunderstand how amazingly powerful today's computers are, and how amazingly bloated and inefficient today's applications and websites are.

alluro2 8y ago
Couldn't agree more...People were creating universes with 1.44MB on floppies. Instead, Viber desktop app installer, for example, is a 133MB download, ~300MB installed and probably uses double the RAM...
- mwcampbell 8y ago
  Never mind a universe in 1.44MB; Elite did it in 32KB, albeit with wireframe graphics. [1] The bloat of many current desktop apps, each with their own copy of a large-footprint GUI toolkit or rendering engine, is indeed sad by comparison. I hope this situation will change when Windows 7 and IE 11 are finally history, meaning that desktop app developers can count on the OS to provide a modern web rendering engine on all platforms. [1]: https://www.filfre.net/2013/12/elite/ https://www.filfre.net/2013/12/elite/