We all did. I still often think about how the 1996 Olympic website used GIF images with dithered pixels, as did most high-end websites at the time, to save on bandwidth. Now if your page doesn't open with a 100MB+ 4K video in the background it's not cool.

In this particular instance I think the 4GB of RAM is required only because there's a memory leak somewhere in the JavaScript, but the fact that a page simply displaying an article can have a memory leak at all is kind of mind-blowing.