Comment by Devasta

I can remember the last time I was really, truly excited about a new technology: Excel 2007 was upping the row limit from 65k to just over a million! I would be able to unleash such monsters on the world, I was surely living in the world of big data!

I am typing this comment on a machine far and away more powerful than the one I had back then, I'm not doing anything much differently to what I was doing back then and don't notice performance improvements at all... almost certainly the internet is slower, but I think desktop performance is starting to wane as well.