Uhhhh, well I don't tend to wait 3-5 minutes for a single .jpeg to load on a website any more.
That was not true on 56k in the late 90s. On a baud modem in 93, sure, but I wasn't talking about that.
As for software load speed, the amount of data being loaded off a CD for a 2d or older 3d game is magnitudes smaller than the data being loaded from modern games.
Irrelevant. The amount of multimedia on a CD was vastly more than the main memory available at the time. Plus you didn't have multi cores, SSD storage (or any HD) etc.
Well I was talking about 97-99 as far as internet browsing went. I don't really remember the internet before that. I wasn't allowed fuck around too much when we had dialup it cost too much. Yes it really was that slow. That was when I first started downloading music and TV shows. I vividly remember the waiting.
>Irrelevant. The amount of multimedia on a CD was vastly more than the main memory available at the time.
I don't follow. It's not like all available memory is ever used to load things from storage. All I know is, I can copy an 8GB DVD on my current computer with 6GB of RAM faster than I could have copied a 756MB CD with around 500MB of RAM.
I do agree nothing is optimized as well, but that's some hard nostalgia goggles talking there.
I mean the file size comparison doesn't really apply, because hardware back then had many limitations anyway.
We should be seeing much better load times than we are given current hardware, not incrementally better or even worse. Which is the reality, since no one optimizes anymore.
That was not true on 56k in the late 90s. On a baud modem in 93, sure, but I wasn't talking about that.
As for software load speed, the amount of data being loaded off a CD for a 2d or older 3d game is magnitudes smaller than the data being loaded from modern games.
Irrelevant. The amount of multimedia on a CD was vastly more than the main memory available at the time. Plus you didn't have multi cores, SSD storage (or any HD) etc.
No one optimizes anymore, and it shows.