The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install

Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by untog on Friday April 22, 2016 @11:49AM (#11550050)

I think you are looking at the past through incredibly rose-tinted glasses. The web has been a mess for a long time, and we used to have to make sure our computer was set to 800x600 and we were using Internet Explorer 6 in order to even use it.

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by ArkyBeagle on Friday April 22, 2016 @12:47PM (#11550494)

I'm pretty sure I had > 1024x768 graphics and have used nothing but Netscape/Seamonkey (because inertia) since the mid '90s.

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by bluedino on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:38PM (#11552038)

Sadly, a lot of laptops come with only 1366x768 displays, 20 years later. What a lack of progress.

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by ArkyBeagle on Friday April 22, 2016 @09:29PM (#11553681)

Laptops sit in a different corner ( as in corner solutions ).

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by coolsunglasses on Friday April 22, 2016 @12:13PM (#11550236)

>make sure our computer was set to 800x600

Thaaaaaaaat's nonsense. I had relatively high-res CRTs (1600x1200) in the late 90s and early 2000s.

My father and I were able to get by with Netscape Navigator and Firefox for quite awhile as well.

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by DanBC on Friday April 22, 2016 @05:10PM (#11552577)

Here's a message from 2003. (scroll up)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/uk.comp.os.linux/5c40N...

> http://www.argos.co.uk

> "Sorry, the Argos Internet site cannot currently be viewed using Netscape 6 or other browsers with the same rendering engine.

> In the meantime, please use a different web browser or call 0870 600 2020 to order items from the Argos catalogue."

> Sorry, I think I'll shop elsewhere until you get it fixed...

Argos was sniffing the useragent. I think people tried changing the useragent, and it worked fine.

This kind of thing wasn't rare, even in 2003.

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by MustardTiger on Friday April 22, 2016 @07:28PM (#11553264)

>This kind of thing wasn't rare, even in 2003.

And it is not rare now either. Nothing has changed in that regard. Things have just gotten massively slower, use insane amounts of CPU, and are less functional.

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by lostgame on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:21PM (#11551901)

Even the first NeXT computer in 1990 was 1120×832...albeit greyscale...still...800x600 died in the mid-90s - especially for professionals.

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by soperj on Friday April 22, 2016 @12:42PM (#11550449)

Firefox was released in November 2004.

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by dice on Friday April 22, 2016 @12:56PM (#11550569)

The initial release of Phoenix was in 2002. Many long-time Netscape/Mozilla users (myself included) switched very early on.

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by coolsunglasses on Sunday April 24, 2016 @11:41PM (#11562427)

I remember even relatively computer un-savvy folk in '98 having 1024x768 monitors.

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by coolsunglasses on Friday April 22, 2016 @12:52PM (#11550536)

I know that. The date range was not exclusive. The point was that high resolution CRTs date quite a bit back even for consumer use. We had no problems browsing the web.

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by TillE on Friday April 22, 2016 @12:13PM (#11550233)

That was 1997, not 2007.

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by bradyd on Friday April 22, 2016 @02:54PM (#11551670)

IE 6 was released with Windows XP in 2001 and IE 7 didn't come out until the end of 2006.

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by PavlovsCat on Saturday April 23, 2016 @05:34AM (#11554851)

Opera was awesome even in 2000.

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Re:The average size of Web pages is now the average size of ... by djsumdog on Friday April 22, 2016 @05:52PM (#11552783)

2007 I was working for a shop that only officially supported IE6. It was a health insurance company too. Your premiums at work!

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