[FriedrichN]

The bad good old days, I sure don't miss writing pages with byzantine structures of tables within tables.

I do miss web pages that weren't +10MB that load hundreds of JS and CSS files that clog up your computer and may or may not contain malware. I hate that having uMatrix and uBlock Origin installed is pretty much a requirement to use the web nowadays.

[throwaway0032]

I remember 2 brief glorious moments of time when everything just worked, and internet and computer speeds was ahead of web designers.

1. When I switched from modem to ADSL I was amazed how fast the web could be. I think I spent most of the first day just clicking around and watching how everything loaded instantly

Then the web designers and product managers caught up and started slowing down the web with larger ads and autoplaying (Flash) videos.

2. When I switched from ADSL to fiber, both my computer and internet was fast enough to counter the crappy parts of a web site and I experienced joy again.

Then SPA became the default web site and things started loading slowly again with placeholders and loading indicators.

Now that we are moving back to SSR I see a slow return to a more snappy web, all though web designers and product managers will surely find ways to counter this too.

[JimDabell]

> The bad good old days, I sure don't miss writing pages with byzantine structures of tables within tables.

People used to jut throw tables everywhere for no reason, like a superstition or something. I remember one day a colleague was stuck because the page he was working on would take over a minute to render in Netscape but about two seconds to render in Internet Explorer. I took a look at the page and somehow he had tables nested twelve levels deep doing absolutely nothing. I deleted all but two of the tables, the layout looked the same but now both browsers rendered the page in under a second.