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@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Bloat is a very wide term that in the context of [software](software.md) and [te
A related but different term is **bloatware**; it's more commonly used among normie users and stands for undesirable programs that eat up computer resources, usually being preinstalled by the computer manufacturer (and often uninstallable) etc. Further on we'll rather focus on bloat as defined before.
A bit of [history](history.md): overcomplicated and obfuscated technology has always been known to present an issue, however it seems like only with the arrival of personal computers it started to become a world wide [cancer](cancer.md) and absolutely serious threat to society. Some dictionaries date the first use of the word *bloatware* to the beginning of [1990s](90s.md), around the time when mainstreamization of computers began ([web](web.md), [Doom](doom.md), [Windows](windows.md), ...), specifically 1991 by *Business Week*. [Goolag](google.md) trends for terms *bloatware* and *software bloat* show an increased search frequency since the year 2010 (which [we](lrs.md) see more or less see as the year when the downfall of society started) and peak around 2015.
A bit of [history](history.md): overcomplicated and obfuscated technology has always been known to suck, however it seems like only with the arrival of personal computers it started to become a world wide [cancer](cancer.md) and absolutely serious threat to society. Some dictionaries date the first use of the word *bloatware* to the beginning of [1990s](90s.md), around the time when mainstreamization of computers began ([web](web.md), [Doom](doom.md), [Windows](windows.md), ...), specifically 1991 by *Business Week*. [Goolag](google.md) trends for terms *bloatware* and *software bloat* show an increased search frequency since the year 2010 (which [we](lrs.md) see more or less as the year when the downfall of society started) and peak around 2015. As for the term *bloat* itself it's hard to find the exact moment at which it started to be used in today's sense, the word *bloat* is a normal word and has likely been used in computer speech since the dawn of computer era, though originally (judging by some 1989 [usenet](usenet.md) posts) more for "files getting big", "email box getting clogged" etc., however by 2007 the suckless website already talks about *bloated* software as in "overly complex source code with bullshit features".
[LRS](lrs.md), [suckless](suckless.md) and some others rather small groups are trying to address the issue and write software that is good, [minimal](minimalism.md), reliable, efficient and well functioning. Nevertheless our numbers are very small and in this endeavor we are basically standing against the whole world and the most powerful tech [corporations](corporation.md). The issue lies not only in capitalism pushing bloat but also in common people not seeing the issue (partly due to the capitalist propaganda promoting [maximalism](maximalism.md)), no one is supporting the few people who are genuinely trying to create good tools, on the contrary such people often face hostility from the mainstream.