Ken Thompson flies a MiG-29 (1999)

Re:Ken Thompson flies a MiG-29 (1999) by Sir_Cmpwn on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @02:09AM (#7771400)

View the source of this page. Older web pages do a good job of reminding me that the most important part of a website is information dissemination, not flashy bits.

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Re:Ken Thompson flies a MiG-29 (1999) by cynwoody on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @02:57AM (#7771502)

Indeed. The page is refreshingly free of JS and CSS and weighs in at a measly 18.8 kb.

But it would have been helpful to have included a full date. Somewhere? Anywhere. Even (especially!) the URL? Sheesh!

A quick google indicates this took place in 1994, as indicated by this usenet post to rec.aviation.stories:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.aviation.stories...

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Re:Ken Thompson flies a MiG-29 (1999) by keithpeter on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @04:54AM (#7771713)

And if you want a narrow column to make the text easier to read, you just resize or tile the browser window!

My vanity site has html with very light css, no javascript. Works ok on Blackberry as well as laptop. Loads fast. All static so very small bandwidth/processor use (shared hosting). Emergency edits using ssh / nano.

I'm wondering how much electricity we use serving and parsing all the presentation code with modern sites?

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Re:Ken Thompson flies a MiG-29 (1999) by colinramsay on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @08:48AM (#7772237)

A blog article on my personal site (for example [1]) pulls down ~13KB in a third of a second. It's also responsive and easier to read than the article link (IMO, obviously). It's a massive shame that older websites show off the regression of developers when it comes to page weight and bandwidth considerations, particular when it's not difficult to create a speedy yet attractive site [2].

[1] http://colinramsay.co.uk/2014/04/23/i-am-so-annoyed-about-rs...

[2] I'm not bigging up my own site here, just the general principle!

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