Hardware specs on phones/computers have increased, but so have ads, flash and general bling... windoze has become more and more bloated with each iteration, so the net effect of better hardware/more ram, etc.. has been muted by all the crap..

A few years ago ADSL was sufficient for most users. Now, fibre optic is the minimum to achieve what ADSL used to, due to more ads/bloat...

I used to love opera - because when you clicked the back button (or right then left mouse button) the porn ooops.. I mean images, would be saved in cache so render instantly.. now that's gone.. so everything is re-loaded, consuming more bandwidth...

Ahhh advancement and technology... gotta love it...