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randome

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4. Unfortunately, the web has morphed into too much eye candy.

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 09:20 AM

Mar 2014

We have unbelievably powerful servers ready to serve up information in nano-seconds. Yet we still wait for pages to load because they are always crammed with unneeded graphic elements that serve no purpose but to clutter our view of the data.

We're not where we need to be in terms of information technology.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"If you're bored then you're boring." -Harvey Danger[/center][/font][hr]

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The Web at 25: I was a teenage dial-up addict [View all] steve2470 Mar 2014 OP

A timely article considering Bartcop's passing MindPilot Mar 2014 #1

my first taste ot the internet was compuserve mikeysnot Mar 2014 #2

That was a very interesting article. I sometimes forget sufrommich Mar 2014 #3

Unfortunately, the web has morphed into too much eye candy. randome Mar 2014 #4

Says the person with an avatar. joeglow3 Mar 2014 #5

Wow. Good point, there! randome Mar 2014 #6