It's not surprising, considering how the way ordinary people habitually use networks has changed. What was once the province of only geeks is now commonplace.

It's not surprising, considering how the way ordinary people habitually use networks has changed. What was once the province of only geeks is now commonplace. Not to mention (what I perceive to be) a tremendous increase in bloat on the web. We have designers going overboard with HTML5 canvas gee whiz effects, infinite scroll, everything requiring javascript when it really shouldn't, and pages with actual content on the order of kilobytes being delivered hidden among tens of megabytes of data. Added to that, the telecom monopolies have little incentive to improve their infrastructure. It's consequently little wonder that "the web is slow"