I'm not suggesting that it didn't ever happen at all; it certainly did on things like personal/vanity sites, some artsy-fartsy sites, but not on the more profes

I'm not suggesting that it didn't ever happen at all; it certainly did on things like personal/vanity sites, some artsy-fartsy sites, but not on the more professional/commercial sites. Professionally, I remember being in design meetings ~'96/'97 where someone would say, "hey, we could...[blast audio/video]" and the more in the know people would down the idea as being bad form [without regard to the bandwidth issues at the time]. That's the attitude I miss.