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What amazes me is back in the day ICQ ran in the background happily on a computer with 8MB RAM and 60Mhz CPU. Same with IRC clients.

These days Slack is occupying 4-8GB of RAM and is less snappy than a native app.

Yeah, in-lining giphy images is kinda fun. But 1000X memory consumption seems like a horrible trade off.

A modern desktop PC would have been a damn supercomputer not long ago. Today it’s kinda adequate.



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