> 1. 25 years ago a 28.8k modem and Cyrix 486 with 8mb ram on AOL had better end-user performance than today’s most popular web apps. This is untrue for most s

> 1. 25 years ago a 28.8k modem and Cyrix 486 with 8mb ram on AOL had better end-user performance than today’s most popular web apps. This is untrue for most sites. A browser could take 10-20 sec to open. Loading a page often took 5-30 sec, depending on if it had any images. I always kept solitaire open and would switch between it and the browser while I waited for things to load.