Humans have a tendency to see to immense resources as inexhaustible…
Until they get close to exhaustion.
Water, our air, petroleum products, various plants and animals. They’re all examples of resources humans use and use, often not being aware of the consequences until it’s too late.
So, I decided to check and see if another immense and inexhaustible resource was being misused by people.
The Internet.
And, it is.
While writing a post for this blog a couple days ago I noticed that one image I downloaded from the web was surprisingly large. So, for kicks I decided to see if I could keep it the same quality but reduce the file size. I didn’t do any tweaking of contrast or brightness. Here are the results:
136k
58.6k
I was shocked. The file was almost twice the size as what was needed. Sure it’s not perfect but it still looks pretty good. I would venture to say that if you didn’t have the other one next to it you wouldn’t even know. But, is this a pattern on the internet? I went over to 5 other sites, and downloaded a few more pictures from them to see if this is a prevalent problem. Below are two of the more glaring examples. Read the rest of this entry »
