Its always trying to cut bloat. Cant someone have a vision for a better internet that better caters to modern use cases and utilizes modern tech stacks to deliver the best possible experience? I dont see any value in going back to 100kb web pages
I often wonder if we see this downward spiral on sites, because their attempts to monetize increase their costs, which require them to increase monetization efforts, which increase…
If we stripped it back, how much would some of these sites really need to run?
Multimedia is inherently large, but there are a lot of diminishing returns as resolution and size increases.
But seriously, without anyone addressing the elephant in the room, there is no way to make the web simple as ad less.
The newspapers of the late 19th century did this with color page cartoons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Yellow_Kid
People bought the newspaper for the cartoons rather than the ads, but the ads supported to printing costs. Eventually the competition became so fierce one of the news giants lowered their cost to 1 penny.
Maybe lightweight internet use is a skill that needs to be trained. But with a solid connection for working, I see this less prioritized.
Of the many Linux distros I've tested, maybe a handful are actually easy to use and not heavy. One example is Bodhi Linux. But I have something more like Tiny Core Linux in mind, except polished (it features a dock, surprisingly). If the hardware could be developed for this too as open hardware, there would be the added advantage of it having more ways to improve it. I'm a bit oxymoronic in having a vertically integrated product idea and an open source bias, but a lot of great ideas need a coherent outline, which sometimes start out as closed source.
If the project starts out with enthusiasm but it gets forked, then it becomes impossible to develop one feature that many people didn't realize would be overall a better user experience, or streamlined option, at the very least.