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I had real-time video chat and played browser games 15 years ago, on hardware a fraction of the power of that today.

It seems a lot of the newer generation just doesn't realise what was already possible before, and is only infatuated with inefficient reinventions.

Those things are all great and probably far better optimised than your average should-be-static site serving bloat.

The overwhelmingly vast majority of things on the World Wide Web are things that are perfectly feasible - and indeed pretty darn trivial - with minimalist hypertext.

The general public likes to do things other than reading minimal hypertext. They don't demand that we shoehorn everything into the web.