I do remember those times :-) and I guess back then, memory was a free-for-all wild west of direct access and no protections whatsoever...
Today, you're using a much more developed 64-bit architecture. On that, an OS that attempts to protect applications from each other (I'm thinking of ASLR but there are maybe more mechanisms). On that, a web browser that creates and manages multi-process working arenas (sandboxes) to protect tabs from each other. On that, add-ons that load in memory thousands of block rules (I mean uBlock), to protect users from commercial incentives of providers.
All that stack must be difficult to bring up with just 8 MiB of RAM :-) (probably the ad blocker alone needs more than that)
Today, you're using a much more developed 64-bit architecture. On that, an OS that attempts to protect applications from each other (I'm thinking of ASLR but there are maybe more mechanisms). On that, a web browser that creates and manages multi-process working arenas (sandboxes) to protect tabs from each other. On that, add-ons that load in memory thousands of block rules (I mean uBlock), to protect users from commercial incentives of providers.
All that stack must be difficult to bring up with just 8 MiB of RAM :-) (probably the ad blocker alone needs more than that)