@ajroach42 Nowadays, though, you can't run old software reasonably. Everything has an expectation of being networked, and with that comes a requirement of keeping up to date.

And, even if that weren't the case... there's a lot of stuff that just says "no" to old versions, or breaks, or can only import from old to new.

So, I feel like that's a factor, too - everyone has to stay on the bleeding edge, nobody cares about graceful degradation. (And, I mean, just look at the web...)

@ajroach42 And, "move fast, break things" became a mindset, so people stopped targeting low-end old devices, they focused on the latest and greatest.

*This* is why performance is so shit nowadays.

In 1992, people targeted old low-end hardware.

In 2018, you're lucky if people target something other than the new MacBook Pro that they're developing it on, and their new iPad.

@ajroach42 However, the first generation of netbooks died out around 2010-2011.

By about 2012, Windows XP starts dying, and with it, IE 6. Now, websites can start using ✨ New Web Technologies ✨ (🤮), because they don't have to support IE 6 (or even IE 8) any more. Everything still seems fine, though, as tablets are taking off, and they're using pretty weak ARM chips, or occasionally recycled netbook Atoms.

...but then tablets get fast.

@caraellison

It's kinda mindblowing when you realize that the time spent on corporate #SocialMedia was actually unpaid work couched as a "free" service. Once I started seeing my attention as a form of investment, I got more intentional about moving that energy to #Mastodon...