In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds have not improved

Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by phendrenad2 on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:17PM (#24055094)

It's cargo-culting. Everyone just follows the herd. Once something gets the scarlet letter of being "old" compared to something "new" (both of which are purely perception), it's really hard to ever get back to using the "old" thing (even if it's performance is better or some other tangible benefit).

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by greedo on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @09:57PM (#24056545)

I remember back around 1999 reading about a guy who had hand-coded his own http server. It was extremely barebones, no server side processing, just fed out html pages. And it was fast, faster than anything you could pay money for. And secure; since it's functionality was so limited compared to all the other web servers, the attack surface was super small. Fast, safe, reliable.

And of course it was used to power porn sites.

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by userbinator on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:55PM (#24055800)

I've noticed that this incessant trendchasing is largely confined to web development, although it has spread a lot from there (Electron...)

To be blunt, I do not care how "new" something is. Newer is not always better, and change is not always good. Churn is not progress. Perhaps those should be the core values that developers need to be "indoctrinated" with, for lack of a better term.

Then again, I'm also probably much older than the average web developer by at least a decade and a half, and saw lots of silly fads come and go.

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