06.27.22

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[Meme] The World Wide Web Has Become Bloated and Slow

Posted in Protocol, Standard at 9:44 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

The World Wide Web at 30

Summary: The Web at 30+ is not what it was back in the 1990s; many people nowadays use tabs because ‘pages’ take far too long to load (in spite of tremendous bandwidth gains; part of the problem is RAM hoard and CPU hogs) and the original goal, a platform or a protocol for interconnected pages, has long been abandoned

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