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I'm pretty happy with my bloated mess. Glad youtube and Spotify aren't limited to 1meg

Glad Google Maps lets me view the world in 3D and with street views and make custom maps, and read reviews with photos, etc. Don't care that it takes more than 1meg.

Love Apple's beautiful pages like the Macbook Air page at 14meg

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I don't think anyone is going to argue that there are sites that provide huge utility in exchange for their size. No one is suggesting we google maps should clock in at less than a MB. But the point is that there's a continuing trend of websites' sizes growing much faster than their functionality - often with the former to the detriment of the latter.

what if those experiences could be provided with a smaller footprint? Try to think bigger than yourself. It would no doubt be faster but also would consume less bandwidth, less storage, less compute = less power meaning good for the environment.

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