Breaking the Broken Web

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Claim: the web is broken by choice — a commitment to eternal backwards compatibility and designs that assume unlimited bandwidth and battery. Evidence: average page weight just passed 2 MB, one site loads 256 requests and 1.3 MB taking 57.97s DOM ready, CNN once costs US $23 to load on roaming, a Botswana village annual income equals one and a third loads; tools and proposals: Gmail basic HTML, client hints RQ=low, and a micro site called unsuck the web. Practical fixes: coordinated “break the web forward” dates and layered progressive delivery.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 17:22the web is broken
3. 19:21browser game theory
4. 23:08control characters
5. 24:37broken by design
6. 41:42Resource Quality

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