memory and picture issues XWD6

[pauland]

James, I won't go into all our yesterdays, but I will stick with less is more. Either way, it matters not.
[edit - your teachers comment might be fair enough in the context of what people were doing with computers at the time. He may not have meant forever. ]

[James Allen]

your teachers comment might be fair enough in the context of what people were doing with computers at the time. He may not have meant forever. ]

They both emphatically said 'Never'. One MB was more than enough. Their view was essentially an anti-corporation rant. They believed that all the bluster about computers was just advertising, designed to make people spend money. Bill Gates was an ebil capitalist, etc.

Anyhoo, regarding website size, apparently the average size of UK websites was 25 MB back in 2008 for the ‘domain harvesting model’, and 180 MB for the permission-based harvesting’ model, and that doesn’t include the non - .UK domain names.

- From Archiving the UK Web (British Library)

Over the last few years the average webpage file size has been growing quickly, and with technology constantly being improved, I think very large websites will be common soon enough.

[pauland]

Quality is always better than quantity and rarely do both go together.

[James Allen]

Quality is always better than quantity

Agreed, but you don’t have to have only one or the other. I think quantity and quality will both continue rising exponentially.

and rarely do both go together.

As with Television before it, I think the goal is to continually improve. Some garbage will go along with it, but that usually accompanies anything good.