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As someone who works in IT, I don't think anything has. I was thinking SSDs, but they became good by ~2013 really. Phones are still garbage in my experience. AI is probably the closest to being slightly useful, at times. Honestly, as someone who used free Skype extensively back around ~2010, I don't find Zoom to be meaningfully better (and I've yet to find anything beat Skype's original noise-cancelling algorithm).
No, I've really thought and genuinely have nothing else. If technology regressed 10 years I think I'd personally be unaffected (and happier, I could avoid upgrading my hardware for so long).
And as they say, hardware being ever faster is balanced by software being ever more bloated. The only exception is SSDs which makes booting a lot faster and solves a lot of issues inherent with HDDs being electromechanical instead of being pure electronics, but I don't see a major difference in SSDs between 2015 and now outside of them becoming cheaper.
Javascript and its consequences...
This is the key, really. I get that for a while, developers spent a lot of time and effort on optimising stuff to a tee, but we very much now go the other way, and developers will increase software size 10-fold before they spend a couple days work to make it actually efficient.
Games nowadays will just include a 4GB texture for every dirty brick wall before they think about coding a shader for a prettier, smaller, less GPU-load, effect.
Adobe Acrobat Reader is now about a gigabyte. To read PDFs. Yet far as I can tell outwardly the PDF format hasn't changed in two decades, when the Reader was more like 10MB.
So many modern days programs package in whole-ass web browser engines for like, one screen.
If tech regressed ten years the internet would be more usable
Let's do 20 years, javascript is bourgeois decadence and the proliferation of dogshit js frameworks was pre-2015
SSDs have doubled in speed over the last decade, haven't they?
Yeah they’ve improved in every aspect since the early SSDs. Cost, physical size, storage size, read/write speed, and longevity. SSDs have existed for a long time, but they’ve improved a lot too.