I'm still fascinated by a website linked on HN some time ago that was written in MarkDown, but then not translated to HTML and served, but sent as MarkDown along with a JavaScript renderer that would then translate and render it on the client. Sure, it works, but why?
(As a marginally related aside, I've recently spun up my mother's old 12" Powerbook G4 from 2005 or so. It worked fine and was reasonably fast and snappy (for a HD based machine), except when I opened the browser. A few tabs brought the machine to a standstill. Goes to show how much crap is on the modern web.)
mdwiki.info? I wrote it because back in 2012 you had a "Public" folder in Dropbox that also was a public static web space. So a way to create a homepage without installing any software and without need to learn html.
Times have changed, Dropbox removed that feature - and no one uses Dropbox even anymore.
These laptops had <1gb RAM. You should be amazed if you could open multiple website.
Each website is essentially a full program with sandboxing etc - and surely you'd be aware that opening I.e. Photoshop 4 times on such a resource restricted system would be just as impossible.
And it wasn't any different back then. At last not on Mac, as I had an iMac and vividly remember the same issue.
The last devices before they switched to Intel had pretty bad performance, that was the reason why they switched soon after.
(As a marginally related aside, I've recently spun up my mother's old 12" Powerbook G4 from 2005 or so. It worked fine and was reasonably fast and snappy (for a HD based machine), except when I opened the browser. A few tabs brought the machine to a standstill. Goes to show how much crap is on the modern web.)