Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
This post again with its ridiculous ranting examples.<p>&quot;This text searching program that searches text against text is way faster and simpler than a fully rendered, interactive map of the entire world with accurate roads and precision at the foot &#x2F; meter level.&quot;<p>No. Shit, really? Get out of town.<p>Yes, some very popular apps have bad UX. But some apps have incredible UX. Cherry picking the bad ones while ignoring the good ones to prove a point is boring and not reflective of the actual industry.<p>These posts fondly remember just the speed, but always seem to forget the frustrations, or re-imagine them to be something we treasured.<p>Remember autoexec.bat files? Remember endless configuration to get one program working? Remember the computer just throwing its hands up and giving up when you gave it input that wasn&#x27;t exactly what it expected? Remember hardware compatibility issues and how badly it affected system stability? Remember when building a computer required work and research and took hours? I do, and it wasn&#x27;t fun then, it was a detriment to doing what you wanted. It wasn&#x27;t a rite of passage, it was a huge pain in the ass.<p>So yeah, things are slower now, and I wanna go fast. But I also don&#x27;t need to spend an entire weekend setting up a PC and a printer for my mom anymore either. I don&#x27;t need to teach her arcane commands to get basic functionality out of her machine. Plug and play and usability happened, and while things feel slower, computers are now open to a much wider audience and are much more usable now.<p>These posts always have a slight stench of elitism disguised as disappointment.