What amazes me is back in the day ICQ ran in the background happily on a computer with 8MB RAM and 60Mhz CPU. Same with IRC clients. These days Slack is occup

What amazes me is back in the day ICQ ran in the background happily on a computer with 8MB RAM and 60Mhz CPU. Same with IRC clients. These days Slack is occupying 4-8GB of RAM and is less snappy than a native app. Yeah, in-lining giphy images is kinda fun. But 1000X memory consumption seems like a horrible trade off. A modern desktop PC would have been a damn supercomputer not long ago. Today it’s kinda adequate.