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   Hello Dennisk!   
      
   ** On Monday 04.05.20 - 11:08, Dennisk wrote to Richard Menedetter:   
      
    D> To be honest, I'm just annoyed that things got to a state where I   
    D> struggled with a Pentium-M 1.66 GHz with 1G of ram to view basic webpages.   
    D>  That and I remember having to provide support for web apps which required   
    D> not just IE, but a specific version of IE, because people in their wisdom   
    D> thought to use browser and version specific extensions.  I simply can't   
    D> accept a status quo where so much computing power is needed for simple   
    D> tasks, it's just not justifiable. There MUST be a design error in there   
    D> somewhere.  I get why things are the way they are and the arguments to a   
    D> degree make sense.  But still, what we have now is from people deciding to   
    D> push technology past its design.   
      
   At first, I was proud of myself when I managed to build up my Win ME pc to     
   a point where I could burn MP3 CDs, configure the pc as a "server"     
   providing a gateway to the internet (poking holes in the firewall) for a     
   couple of other pcs on my network, tweek the settings to get very close to     
   the 2GB max ram that the pc harware supported, use it to support via     
   remote control, and a few other things - all the while still only having     
   dialup!   
      
   But a new reality gradually creeped in when some websites wouldn't     
   cooperate with the current browser I was using. And newer versions of     
   browsers simply weren't available for WinME.   :(   
      
   I managed to overcome that limitation by installing Ubuntu. The pc worked     
   reasonably well for a couple years after that.  But the max 2GB ram proved     
   to be a limitation after a few more Ubuntu updates.  And again, the     
   browser program was the first sign of "not good enough".   
      
      
    D> There is good reason to put applications over the internet, but it   
    D> shouldn't have been over "HTTP", which is to transfer HyperText.  Perhaps   
    D> something like "ATP", Application Transfer Protocol should have been   
    D> developed (which could use HTTP as a subset), allowing the functionality   
    D> available in freephototool, but also allowing HTTP to be implemented in a   
    D> more pure, simpler fashion.   
      
   I don't know what they're doing on Facebook, but it takes at least 15     
   seconds to load the main page while it takes another 15 secs for all the     
   tracking shit to settle down before I can succeed to do my first PG DN.     
   And this is using a modest 3Mbps 4G/3G mobile data service via my cell     
   phone as a hotspot.  Consequently, I rarely bother with FB anymore.   
      
      
      
      
      
     ../|ug   
      
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