And you are here why?

Let’s wind back — way way back — to the early days of the InterWebs. The year was 1994, and a bunch of us were building out some of the first commercial “web sites”. ( Quotes because a decent chunk of the sales process actually involved explaining WTF was a “web site” was in the first place, why you should care, and just give me the damn money. But that’s a story for another day… Anyhow, back then we had a limit of 50KB per page. And even  that  was something that we had spent days — weeks even! — arguing about amongst ourselves. After all, 50KB? That would take  forever  to load! Also, how could you possible have that much stuff on a page in the first place? And then you had the other side, whose argument basically could be translated to “ As long as it looks good, I don’t give a shit about size ”. Of course, yes, there was a bit more about  aesthetics , and  the integrity of the design , and a whole bunch more. This argument, as far as I can tell...