I am currently transferring a sort of large account from another server to the new one, and it occurred to me that the size of what I was bringing over from one server to another, and then subsequently will install, tweak and get running is larger than Windows 7 installed. It’s starting to get reminiscent of installing operating systems on computers.

Why that seemed interesting to me was that I remember some of the first websites I made in the late ’90s. They consisted of about 4 or 5 html files and a few gif images. They were, by design, very very minimalist so that those on 28.8k modems would not have to wait 5 minutes to see your web page. We hadn’t started using extra style sheets, javascript libraries, CMS’s, php programming. Eventually websites contained about the same amount of files as installing DOS did, at about the same size in kilobytes.