Comment Comment by snowwrestler The Doom install image was 35x the size of the Apollo guidance computer.Thirty-five times! Apollo software got us to the moon. Doom wasted millions of man-hours on a video game.My point of course is that these comparisons are not actually that illuminating.Are web pages much heavier than they need to be? Yes. This presentation very capably talks about that problem:http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htmDoes comparing web pages to Doom help understand or improve the situation? No, not any more than comparing Doom to Apollo memory size helps us understand the difference between a video game and a history-altering exploration. parent snowwrestler 10 years ago
Thirty-five times! Apollo software got us to the moon. Doom wasted millions of man-hours on a video game.
My point of course is that these comparisons are not actually that illuminating.
Are web pages much heavier than they need to be? Yes. This presentation very capably talks about that problem:
http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
Does comparing web pages to Doom help understand or improve the situation? No, not any more than comparing Doom to Apollo memory size helps us understand the difference between a video game and a history-altering exploration.