> The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install It's n... | Hacker News

Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

login

jmnicolas on April 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The average size of Web pages is now the average s...

> The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install

It's not really surprising in a world where a graphical driver is > 100 MB (Nvidia driver for Windows).

elsurudo on April 22, 2016 | [–]

They mean the original Doom, which ran with a software renderer anyways.

warriorkitty on April 22, 2016 | | [–]

Oh come on, let's talk about Adobe Reader and Skype. :)

throwanem on April 22, 2016 | | [–]

Only a hundred megabytes? You're getting off light there. I went to install the latest Nvidia CUDA driver the other day, and it's a gigabyte download.

batat on April 22, 2016 | [–]

And 43 MB chromium mini_installer.exe

Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!
Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact