My first PC, purchased in 1996, came with a Seagate hard disk drive (HDD) with a capacity of approximately 1.2 GB. The technology has made such a massive jump since then that an HDD of that capacity almost sounds ridiculous. That reminds me that you could install an operating system on that thing and be left with a lot of space for applications. Yet today, a huge number of popular applications bundle an internet browser with them and pretend to be real desktop applications. They take up hundreds of MB, a ...