The guys making the websites had the Big Computers, so they made websites that would only work on Big Computers, and now we all need octa-core processors just to look at emails
the answer back then was, nothing
the answer today is, javascript bloat on every website
@doriantaylor.comi remember when i was reading you are not a gadget (i think that was it at least), jaron lanier was like "the people with the biggest computers will have the most power" and i recall at the time i was like, what even is there to compute?
and the answer turned out to be crypto, then ai
