{"id":99162,"date":"2025-08-26T10:40:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=214fb4f1628d4346d126cee41b9d985d"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:40:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:40:36","slug":"the-size-of-adobe-reader-installers-through-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=99162","title":{"rendered":"The size of Adobe Reader installers through the years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/143180\/the-size-of-adobe-reader-installers-through-the-years\/\">OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Bloat, quantified.  This should be embarrassing to the entire software industry.<\/div><blockquote>\n<p>The following chart shows how the Adobe Reader installer has grown in size over the years. When possible, 64-bit versions of installers were used.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/sigwait.org\/~alex\/blog\/2025\/08\/25\/zw6z4E.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8619; Alexander Gromnitsky<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Disk space is cheap, sure, but this is insanity.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following chart shows how the Adobe Reader installer has grown in size over the years. When po&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=99162\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}