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and I apologize for not acknowledging the difference between what comes down the pipe to display pages and what's coming through to stream movies and music.

The 'bloat' issue on web sites can be found across all forms of programming. Processor speeds increased, storage space got cheaper, and development tools became easier to use. At the entry level, few forms of programming require management of limited resources these days at the entry level, and now the bandwidth bottleneck is biting back. (How's that for alliteration?)