> (And because people forget, it is not too far off to say that would be like trying to deliver the internet of 2020 on machines with specs comparable to a Nintendo Wii. I'm trying to pick a game console as a sort of touchpoint, and there probably isn't a perfect comparison, but based on the machines I had in 2000 the specs are roughly inline with a Wii, at least by the numbers. Though the Wii would have murdered my 2000-era laptop on graphics.)

It depresses me to think how much of the 2020 Internet (or 2025 Internet) that is actually of value really ought to be able to run on hardware that old.

Or so I imagine, anyway. I wonder if anyone's tried to benchmark simple CSS transitions and SVG rendering on ancient CPUs.

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BobbyTables2 3 days ago | parent [-]

Also in the amount of data.

Ever remember waiting something like hour to watch a 60-second movie preview over dialup?

I get a reminder every time I load a modern website in an area with very poor reception. Appears to not load at all —- not due to lack of connectivity but rather due the speeds and latencies being too slow for the amount of crap being fetched.

GPRS and EDGE were many times faster than dialup — must have been a dream — but now utterly unusable.

	▲	svachalek 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The sad part of it is, pretty much everything on that modern website that makes it too fat to load is completely unnecessary. You can create a beautiful, full featured page that's only a few kbytes.
	▲	zahlman 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That is indeed one of the differences I had in mind.