exactly this. i remember when programmers took the time to make sure their programs didn't take up alot of memory. as we got more ram, many became lazy about me

exactly this. i remember when programmers took the time to make sure their programs didn't take up alot of memory. as we got more ram, many became lazy about memory optimization cause well... the computer has plenty. same thing here with webpages. there was a time where you needed to optimize your site cause of the modem that everyone used. now everyone has dsl or higher so there isn't an incentive to optimize your site.