[martyvis]

Many years ago I was called into troubleshoot the rollout of a new web based customer management application that was replacing a terminal green screen one. I was flummoxed finding all the developers had only ever tested their app running from workstations on 100Mbps switches where the target offices for this application were connected by 128kbps ISDN lines. I was able demonstrate how each 12kB of their application was going to take 1 second. (It was amazing to see their HTML still full of comments, long variable names, etc). I don't even think they had discovered gzip compression. This was after many millions of dollars had already been spent on the development project.