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 userbinator on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:45PM (#24055737)

Twitter, where displaying short pieces of text and occasionally images and very occasionally video can require extravagant amounts of processing power that can only be found in the latest hardware and software...

Years ago, it was a common conspiracy theory that the hardware manufacturers were forcing obolescence --- and to a certain extent they still are --- but now it seems software developers have outdone the hardware manufacturers without any help from the latter...

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by jodrellblank on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @08:40PM (#24056046)

Wirth's Law, 1995 - "software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster", attributed to back to 1987 or so.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by andrepd on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @08:54PM (#24056137)

Simply compare with nitter.net to see how the exact same content can easily be presented in a simple, lean, fast way.

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