The complete Doom 2, including all graphics, maps, music and sound effects, shipped on 4 floppies, totalling 5.76MB.

The article suggests that it takes 14MB of Javascript to do just the calendar. I doubt that all of my calendar events for 2025 is 14MB.

Or the same number of 64k intros[1][2][3]...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXgseVYvhek

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWCQfg2IuUE

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lWbKcPEy_w

Sure, but what people leave out is that it’s mostly C and assembly. That just isn’t realistic anymore if you want a better developer experience that leads to faster feature rollout, better security, and better stabilty.

This is like when people reminisce about the performance of windows 95 and its apps while forgetting about getting a blue screen of death every other hour.