This was quite a ride. Very stream of conscious feel. Such that I don't want to get too caught in the examples. > I don’t think I’m invoking some halcyon fan

This was quite a ride. Very stream of conscious feel. Such that I don't want to get too caught in the examples. > I don’t think I’m invoking some halcyon fantasy. That said, the above is in fact a fantasy. Isn't necessarily wrong, but your average computer image in the 90s is laughably small compared to today. Such that just opening the app is likely processing more than was even possible in the 90s. This also means strategies that were fine back then, such as indexing everything on a personal computer so that it could feel snappier, work against the goal. People want faster applications, but we don't really have a route to letting them do fewer things. And I assert that is a large part of why things were maybe faster back in the day.