It's all relative, guess what - things change.
And things change for the worse! Clearly I'm becoming old, in my 20s.
With internet speeds so much faster, if we kept page sizes down imagine how snappy everything would be...
Of course, I can't complain. I'm currently working on a website, far, far, far simpler than the QFF site, and it's already 445 KB for a page that's almost 100% text. Turns out a quarter of that is the Facebook share button. Zuck's tracking, eating up everyone's mobile data a hundred kilobytes at a time.
I remember when our single shared terminal at work was upgraded from a 360b floppy to a 720b floppy.
A lot of younger people would ask if I made a typo and meant gb instead of b
I'm just old enough to have encountered 5.25" floppy drives, and computers that used cassette tapes for storage unless you bought the optional floppy drive extra...
I'm probably just bitter because my employment involves working with various types of embedded electronics, and while our storage constraints aren't what they used to be, we still have to go to some effort to shave any excess kilobytes off our code. Web frontend developers on the other hand...
Anyway - loading the QFF page, for me, only used 7.7MB of bandwidth (with cache disabled). That's not too bad by the standards of the modern web.