A time traveller from the 2000's visits a modern software company
traveller: all your laptops have 32 GB of RAM in them?! Your devs must be doing some really heavy stuff, what the hell do they need all that memory for?
guide: web browsing.
traveller: ...you fukken wat mate?
@troubleMoney
"Okay, but, like, look how fast this funny picture loads."
@Joystick_Hero @troubleMoney ...it's slower than my old dial up modem!
@phessler @troubleMoney But look at how much funnier it is!
@troubleMoney traveller: this here time machine only uses 64kB and fits fine in the back of most any Chevrolet...
@troubleMoney One word: ELECTRON
@troubleMoney s/web browsing/ads and trackers/gi
@troubleMoney "what's the 'web'?"
@troubleMoney Accurate.
@troubleMoney This is the best toot I've ever seen on Mastodon.
@troubleMoney Emacs used to be an acronym for Eight megabytes And Constantly Swapping.
@troubleMoney Also IDEs.
Which run in web browsers.