Trying to make it so my players can click a button and play a MIDI file, because I can do a MIDI playback in like 20kb vs like 4 megs for an MP3.

1999: yeah no problem dude

2024: well, no, but there's a JavaScript thing that you can install via whatever the hell NPM is, there's twenty megs of soundfonts to go with it,

I think I've found the problem, the problem is that I'm old

1999: go grab a .zip from hotscripts, upload it to your server, write <script src=nowwheredidiputit>, job done

2024: write <script src=somebodyelse'swebsite>, everything works fine for a few months and then everyone's CPU fans start whirring as somebodyelse'swebsite starts mining cryptocurrencies

2024: oh no my website went down because somebody else's website went down, woe

This is a lot of bother to go to so that I can have Pachebel's Canon in D playing in the background when my players are reading a lovingly-detailed account of being screamed at by a robot while shaking a tin can over a rock until stinking beige semifood finally schlorps out

Me, compressing and recompressing a four-meg MP3: 🦝 yeah it's funny, but is it NINE HUNDRED KILOBYTE'S worth of funny,
Every other website: 🐴 here's thirty megabytes of video ad to go with your ten kilobytes of copypasta meme text

🐴 come on Dan that cryptomining malware thing was a bit far-fetched
🦝 literally the top result for this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5662293/how-to-play-a-midi-file-in-html#30418147

🦝 computer, why did you make it so hard to do this thing that used to be so easy
💻 I dunno, why are you so fucking old