The public version of the Web started taking off in 1995, around the time Netscape Navigator was released. Here's the World Supercomputer List for 1995: https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/1995/06/ … A Coffee Lake GPU in a random laptop is almost double the performance of the top of that list.
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Jonathan Blow Retweeted Suhail
So what we are observing is, since the Web started, it has become so much slower that a supercomputer would no longer be able to run it? Does that make sense to anyone?https://twitter.com/Suhail/status/1387063023521595394 …
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow
Isn’t this somewhat unfair though? Similar arguments were probably made for video games evolution, operating systems etc. As technology advances applications “expand” to take advantage of it, for better or worse, and may also in turn be the catalyst for technology advancements.
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That's not quite the same. A videogame today renders a huge multiple of the number of triangles that they did in 1995. With countless new features. A website is basically just rendering text and images to the screen. Mostly the same functionality with much worse performance.
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Replying to @StevenBHutton @markpapadakis
Indeed, video games do tremendously more today. It's actually insane. In 1996-97 we were worried about drawing pixels more than once, when that pixel had a diffuse texture and maybe some very-low-quality lighting. Today's shaders are astonishingly lavish in comparison;
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I would have had a hard time believing it if you went back in time and told me. Then of course the CPU part of the engine is doing so much more as well (though not proportionally as much as the GPU part, and that is indeed often a failing of engineering on the CPU side).
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