I was alive when the internet appeared and took over the world, it was a different web, with less jokes, no memes, and mostly sharing knowledge. Those days are over, today it's quite likely that conversations will actually take place around a meme, and some friends do nothing but talk about the new memes and pranks, it's sad. But diff people = diff preferences.

Now talking about work and passion, like others around here I learned to focus on efficiency, to make some code run faster, faster web, faster queries, less turns, less energy wasted, etc. All the projects I was in charge of had calm servers with no overloads, that is multiple websites with lots of traffic in the same server. While new webmasters in the company were in charge of just one website, one that caused overloads and suddenly new servers were needed, then specialized servers, then WP accelerated servers.

My websites still load crazy fast, so much it's noticeable. During one job interview long ago the company owner said that was amazing and knew very few people in the country could do that, but most will just buy more speed, I was like WTH?, but he had a point. Being a tech passionate, most people I know talk to me about their gadgets or issues, and today it's recurring "oh my computer is too slow". Many times they have more powerful hardware than I do, but mine runs better. Sometimes they complain and when I look, they are just watching some memes compilation at 1080x60fps while they say "oh the internet is too slow, this machine sucks, etc etc", and I'm like what?

Today most people wouldn't load a video in the correct resolution, instead they would buy more ram, another SSD, more mhz, and will add "I like the crispness of the image, that's why I don't lower the resolution", all of this while using a 22" display that they are NOT looking at, instead they are doing something else. Oh, so much technology wasted.

Perhaps I should have started with this paragraph: today it seems less likely (locally) to get hired for efficiency, people seem more interested on spending money on a new server, more bandwidth, fiber options internet, better data plans on their cells, etc, in order to keep loading videos of cats. When and why did efficiency die?