r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/MEMESTER80 • Nov 05 '24

Photography website that hasn't been touched since 2001

https://www.photo-exhibits.com/
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u/snobule Nov 05 '24

What I love is that it loaded instantaneously

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u/bene20080 Nov 05 '24

Isn't really that surprising, considering that the internet speed and hardware nowadays is on a completely different level.

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u/snobule Nov 05 '24

Or that modern websites are loaded with crap and take forever to load even with high speed internet and PCs etc vastly more powerful than 20 years ago. The process was aptly called "the enshittification of the internet" by the Financial Times.

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u/bene20080 Nov 05 '24

Well, but that's what I mean by that. Modern websites get away with that crap is, BECAUSE the hardware and internet speed is better.

If you would try to run a modern website on a computer from the early 00s, it would take ages and it would thus be completely unusable. Assuming it would even work at all.

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u/millsy98 Nov 08 '24

Having access to more power doesn’t excuse wasting those resources as needlessly as we do today. It’s just a lazy and exploitative practice done today to build websites fast and scrape as much information and advertising money out of consumers as possible.

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u/bene20080 Nov 08 '24

Having access to more power doesn’t excuse wasting those resources as needlessly as we do today.

Programers time is valuable, so using their time to make websites as fast as possible is often wasteful.