Taking Back the Web

Got a fat pipe? A really fat one?

Got a fat pipe? A really fat one? Broadband is great, innit?

Remember when you ran a 1400 Baud modem? Of course not. Remember when your box had a walloping 32 MB RAM and a 512 MB HDD? Probably not. But only a few years ago - in the current web revolution - things were like this and things worked well.

But that was back before the web became commercialised - before especially the news media got their hands on it and started dragging it down.

News sites have done more to destroy the web than almost anything else. In terms of pure bandwidth news sites today are an abomination.

There are no solutions here, only questions. Following are representative statistics for home pages for popular news sites (and a few others) anno 2006.