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Back in 1994, my 486 had no issue rendering the Star Wars opening crawl in a sweet game, Star Wars: TIE Fighter. Fast forward 20 years, and thanks to the wonders of web, my computer can't even render it correctly. I get a blank screen after the star wars logo. So much for progress.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYks9ZfupZ0

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To a tech naive eye, this CSS looks and sounds much better than the 486 version. If I had to show my granny my first pc (a ~20 kilos 486) playing the game intro and a retina ipad rendering this css effect, she'd probably be amazed by tech progress in these last 20 years. Further, I can't see how the next 20 years may produce a greater improvement in this render than the past 20s. It's probably just that we can't fully appreciate progress from within..

Actually, on my retina iPad this demo doesn't work at all. You hear the music, but no visuals appear.

Yes, who could have guessed we would still have bugs in the 21st century, right?

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