12 Oct
2011
12 Oct
'11
2:19 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: Let's talk NeXT - Re: Steve Jobs -2011
Again with the "twilight zone" theme. These interfaces are on the
rise, in a roaring way, to a tremendous degree. Google Apps and their
ilk, GWT-based apps, AJAX, "Web 2.0" etc etc etc all fall under this
category. Everything is going that way. It is a huge, bloated,
bandwidth-wasting, cycle-wasting mess.
Wow what a weird-ass thread.
-Dave
I completely agree.
Back in "the day" when you connected to a website, you just loaded the
website code (HTML, PHP etc.) and images from the server/s hosting the
website. Today you load all that, plus load adverts (usually flash-based)
from other websites, connect to www.googleanalytics.com
(or similar
websites) and perhaps a few other sites too. Those of you on a fast
connection may not notice it, but as I'm on dial-up (and have been for the
last 10 years) I can actually see what is going on.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk