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   -=> August Abolins wrote to Dennisk <=-   
      
    AA> Hello Dennisk!   
      
    AA> ** On Monday 04.05.20 - 11:08, Dennisk wrote to Richard Menedetter:   
      
    AA> At first, I was proud of myself when I managed to build up my Win ME pc   
    AA> to a point where I could burn MP3 CDs, configure the pc as a "server"   
    AA> providing a gateway to the internet (poking holes in the firewall) for   
    AA> a couple of other pcs on my network, tweek the settings to get very   
    AA> close to the 2GB max ram that the pc harware supported, use it to   
    AA> support via remote control, and a few other things - all the while   
    AA> still only having dialup!   
      
   Win Me?  Oh, I still feel the scars from that OS, and I didn't even use it,   
   just provides a little support for it.  I moved to Linux in 2000, gradually.   
      
    AA> But a new reality gradually creeped in when some websites wouldn't   
    AA> cooperate with the current browser I was using. And newer versions of   
    AA> browsers simply weren't available for WinME.   :(   
      
    AA> I managed to overcome that limitation by installing Ubuntu. The pc   
    AA> worked reasonably well for a couple years after that.  But the max 2GB   
    AA> ram proved to be a limitation after a few more Ubuntu updates.  And   
    AA> again, the browser program was the first sign of "not good enough".   
      
   An alternative was simply to never update your OS, which is what I did.  It did   
   mean not updating browsers, and software as well, but I was able to use Red Hat   
   Linux 7.3 up until 2009 on a 700MHz machine with 384M RAM.  I don't do that   
   now, as its probably not a good practice.   
      
    AA> I don't know what they're doing on Facebook, but it takes at least 15   
    AA> seconds to load the main page while it takes another 15 secs for all   
    AA> the tracking shit to settle down before I can succeed to do my first PG   
    AA> DN. And this is using a modest 3Mbps 4G/3G mobile data service via my   
    AA> cell phone as a hotspot.  Consequently, I rarely bother with FB   
    AA> anymore.   
      
   I think part of it is that the HTTP protocol wasn't designed to handle small   
   packets of traffic going back and forth.  It was designed for occasional   
   requests of documents.  People developing more active webpages simply abused   
   the protocol and HTML, and browsers had to bloat to support it.  As a result,   
   problems which shouldn't have existed were created, and instead of rethinking   
   the basic technology underneath, people invented new wrong solutions.   
      
   FB is horrible design.  I joined because someone was too lazy to simply send   
   e-mails.  A good example of design is the D Language Forum at forum.dlang.org.    
   It's web based, simple and FAST.  But better still, it's actually a front end   
   to an NNTP backend, so you can use a newgroup reader to access it as well.    
   Good use of existing technology to solve a problem.  This is the way it should   
   be done.   
      
   ... Dennis Katsonis   
   --- MultiMail/Linux v0.52   
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