Remember the days when surfing the web was much simpler?
With smartphones, tablets, Windows 10, and all that new and fancy stuff, surfing the web has become, in my view anyway, an exercise in frustration. I agree my internet speed is not a trillion bits per second, but it is fast enough and I would guess most of us have speeds in that range. But the modern website seems to never end. I have a smartphone, a desktop and a laptop. So I do use a mouse (remember those???). In the 'old' days, a website would have a single screen when you navigated there. Then you go to a different screen on the click of a mouse. But things now are so different.
The screen resizes when you are reading it,
videos start playing when you mouse accidentally passes over it, causing you to keep adjusting the volume
out of nowhere pops up another video which later disappears back into nowhere
just when you start reading something else pops up
you get to the bottom of the screen and presto, it starts again and seems to go on forever
I suppose all these thing are designed for the tablet user that keeps swiping from left to right, top to bottom, front to back. But as with all these new applications, the faster the computers and the download speeds get, the more crap we put there so the effect on the speed is zero.
With smartphones, tablets, Windows 10, and all that new and fancy stuff, surfing the web has become, in my view anyway, an exercise in frustration. I agree my internet speed is not a trillion bits per second, but it is fast enough and I would guess most of us have speeds in that range. But the modern website seems to never end. I have a smartphone, a desktop and a laptop. So I do use a mouse (remember those???). In the 'old' days, a website would have a single screen when you navigated there. Then you go to a different screen on the click of a mouse. But things now are so different.
The screen resizes when you are reading it,
videos start playing when you mouse accidentally passes over it, causing you to keep adjusting the volume
out of nowhere pops up another video which later disappears back into nowhere
just when you start reading something else pops up
you get to the bottom of the screen and presto, it starts again and seems to go on forever
I suppose all these thing are designed for the tablet user that keeps swiping from left to right, top to bottom, front to back. But as with all these new applications, the faster the computers and the download speeds get, the more crap we put there so the effect on the speed is zero.
