> Most of the people could use a decades-old computer and a <1Mbit/s connection The computer I'm writing this on is nearly a decade old and performs perfectly

> Most of the people could use a decades-old computer and a <1Mbit/s connection The computer I'm writing this on is nearly a decade old and performs perfectly well on modern websites. Granted, I'm not going to try using a < 1Mb/s connection. That being said, I agree that things like client-side (and server-side) scripting and video decoding (and encoding) reflects a disinterest in environmental concerns. I will disagree about the quantity of data playing a negligible role, since serving it may not be very energy hungry but building out infrastructure is. We can satisfy our needs with a lot less if we used all of our resources more effectively.