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I remember when bandwidth was at a premium and 1200 baud was fast. There were pleas everywhere to use simple html, white text on black. Images were links to d
by raddad 10y ago
I remember when bandwidth was at a premium and 1200 baud was fast. There were pleas everywhere to use simple html, white text on black. Images were links to download if you wanted to view them and encouraged only if they added to the content. Nobody was trying to make the web into television.
- mbreese 10y agoWhen 1200 baud was fast there were no pleas to use simple html - there was no html! You might have had me with 56k or even 28.8kbps (V.92!), but 1200 baud. When 1200 baud was fast - yes, everywhere was simple text on the screen (maybe ANSI colors), but more along the lines of Compuserve or a BBS. And yes, you had to download images. The best were the progressive scan ones where you could view the incomplete images as they downloaded. Ah, the memories...
- bphogan 10y agoI had a 28.8k modem. But my internet connection was rural, and 1200 baud. It was possible.
- mbreese 10y agoI believe it, but that wasn't considered fast at the time. And your point is definitely valid - there were web page size optimizations done with dial-up users in mind. I even remember programs that simulated loading time at different download speeds. But around 1980, 1200 baud was considered lightning fast! Imagine the jump from 300 to 1200 baud. But back then, HTML wasn't even a consideration and network connections were completely text-based sessions. If you were lucky, you had some control over colors. If you were lucky...
- bphogan 10y agoAll I'm saying is that when there were 28.8 modems, people in rural areas didn't always see those. In 1995. When you could do simple tables, images, and font colors. I remember it well because I worked with a rural ISP to make their web page.