Generally speaking, websites these days (compared to 10 years ago) are larger in scale, more active in animation using custom-based that are primarily database driven. And contrary to popular belief, the bigger the website, the more your computer has to work to render. The days of text-based sites are obviously long gone; this is the age of super-sexy pretty websites, no matter how pointless they are.
When I first joined the WWW, it was late in the 90s. With an old Compaq Presario (386), I was able to fulfill my love for baseball stats printing gobs of pages on my dot-matrix printer. Most sites were text-based and a gif was, at the time, freaking genius.
Now sites are infiltrated with intense graphics, several flash animations, database calls to an internet server internal from the site’s external designation (which means firewalls must examine each package). With more, requires more.
Anyway, Mozilla’s newest version of FireFox should be released sometime today. We’ll get our hands on it soon and test it out.
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