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truly the power of innovation (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml to c/latestagecapitalism@lemmygrad.ml

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who needs free software or getting rid of planned obsolescence?

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[–] comradecalzone@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

old webpages (like from the 2000s) are fast and snappy

new webpages take much longer to load

Modern webpages are less like a page and more like a full blown application. If you're not careful you'll get an unoptimized mess, which is exacerbated when you put a bunch of ads on top.

That being said I don't have memories of everything being snappy 20 years ago - there were messy scripts and gigantic images that made Geocities and Angelfire sites near unusable back then as well.

[–] RoabeArt@hexbear.net 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That being said I don't have memories of everything being snappy 20 years ago - there were messy scripts and gigantic images that made Geocities and Angelfire sites near unusable back then as well.

Pages with dozens of embedded JPEG files that are larger than your monitor's resolution and are compressed at highest quality. Easily a quarter to half of a megabyte each and take several minutes to load on dialup, then the webserver times out the connection because you're taking too long to download all these giant files at once.

I don't miss those days. Not to say things are better now, but they necessarily weren't back then either.

Oh, and RealPlayer. Fuck RealPlayer.

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Pages with dozens of embedded JPEG files that are larger than your monitor's resolution and are compressed at highest quality. Easily a quarter to half of a megabyte each and take several minutes to load on dialup

Sure but wasn't there a sweet spot in the late 2000s where this wasn't much of an issue

Also that's basically the thing that's happening with discord now too. Thousands of embedded JPGs, GIFs, WEBMs instead of just displaying the link that you click on to view it. The end result is a laggy piece of software

realplayer

Only used it a few times, what was so bad about it? Also what are your thoughts on Quicktime?

[–] JaxNakamura@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not GP, but: Realplayer compressed everything to hell, the quality was absolutely atrocious. I believe it was buggy as well.

Quicktime was a behemoth that took ages to launch. To speed things up, it liked to auto-load and be active in the system tray, slowing system start down even further and taking up precious ram on the off chance that you might want to watch a quicktime video. It also liked to register itself as the video player of choice for other formats, because why would you use a decent player if you can use a shitty one that was made by Apple? Fuck quicktime.

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 5 points 10 months ago

That being said I don't have memories of everything being snappy 20 years ago - there were messy scripts and gigantic images that made Geocities and Angelfire sites near unusable back then as well.

I guess I wasn't really accessing Angelfire stuff until the late 2000s