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...and the World Wide Web goes full circle and mimics the service it replaced. #gopher2017

a 16GB RAM machine to run something that ran on 16MB

So that you can open 1024 pages before swapping to disk.

People asked for hundreds of open tabs, they got it.

Even on a 16MB machine I had open tens of tabs without much problem, browser responsiveness on Firebird(?) was the same as this multi-core machine