Big Scale Models (Read 8,956 times)

Lorin, don't you just love that the Internet shows you 1 of 50 pictures at time on individual pages.  So you can wait for each page to fully paint all the ads before you can hit the "Next" button or you accidently hit an ad page that takes you away from the content.

I first started using the WWW in 1994 while working for Xerox Service HQ.  In 1982 our Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) had already invented the STAR Computer system (Code name Alto) which had the first Intranet within a company. It featured a Graphical User Interface (GUI), a Mouse, and was connected by Ethernet Local Area Network within buildings and later globally to all Xerox locations around the world.  I started using it in 1986 and it had no ads.  Then I started using the Internet in 1995 and it's been downhill ever since the exponential user growth and ad monetization started.

In 1994 the Internet became popular thanks to Vinton Cerf & Bob Kahn who invented TCP/IP while working for DARPA.  I sent one of our analysts to PARC which was working on Internet Search Engines.  When he came back he said, one day all out copier machines will be connected to the internet.  So we bought him $50K worth of computers in a rack and he demonstrated the way to do it.  Today that's call the Internet of Things.

In 1995 the Internet had 16,000,000 users or 0.4% of the world population.  24 years later, In 2019 there were 4,536,000,000 or 58.8% of the world population.

Here is a chart by continent of users
www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Notice the amount of ads on the page.  The price we have to pay for using the Internet is wasted time and inconvenience.

I remember in 1995 when 4-5 second page paint time was worth waiting for.
Today if a page is not painted in 1 second I click out and go somewhere else.

Time is the only thing we have left at our age and we don't look kindly at advertisers who want to waste it.

Off my soap box. LOL!
Pat P.