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It is said that between 2005 and 2010 society left behind Generation Hyperlink and entered Generation Scroll. Generation Hyperlink began when Tim Berners-Lee created the first webpage in 1990, a page that contained four hyperlinks and weighed around 2 Kilobytes. Three decades later the average weight of a website was 1966 Kilobytes. Scrolling through a website with a mouse or trackpad allowed developers to add massive chunks of content into a single site, which translated into a “richer” user experience but also dramatically increased the amount of energy and resources needed to load the page. | It is said that between 2005 and 2010 society left behind Generation Hyperlink and entered Generation Scroll. Generation Hyperlink began when Tim Berners-Lee created the [http://info.cern.ch/ first webpage] in 1990, a page that contained four hyperlinks and weighed around 2 Kilobytes. Three decades later the [https://httparchive.org/ average weight] of a website was 1966 Kilobytes. | ||
Scrolling through a website with a mouse or trackpad allowed developers to add massive chunks of content into a single site, which translated into a “richer” user experience but also dramatically increased the amount of energy and resources needed to load the page. | |||
For those living in Europe in 2019, the average user would scroll the equivalent of 180 meters each day, half the height of Berlin’s TV Tower. | For those living in Europe in 2019, the average user would scroll the equivalent of 180 meters each day, half the height of Berlin’s TV Tower. | ||
Since the 2024 collapse of the online ad industry, websites have now entered into “Generation Just Enough”, prioritizing only necessary content delivered in the most sustainable way, respecting user’s choices and limiting the number of daily adverts served. | Since the 2024 collapse of the online ad industry, websites have now entered into “Generation Just Enough”, prioritizing only necessary content delivered in the most sustainable way, respecting user’s choices and limiting the number of daily adverts served. | ||