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Worth noting this webpage is ~1MB itself. However it does have a lot of images - I'm not entirely sure why it has all of those images, but the size is not a sur

• jff 10y ago
  And that's sort of the point, in my mind: the page is about a megabyte, while something comparable on the modern sites he's talking about would be many times larger. As you say, it's a megabyte because there's a megabyte of content, not a megabyte of Javascript and trackers and "From Around The Web" Back when I was on 28.8K dialup, I'd typically figure I could fetch a megabyte a minute. Because the site is just plain old HTML, even over a terrible connection you'll be able to start reading pretty much immediately, and the images will pop in as you go. It's a good user experience.
  • theandrewbailey 10y ago
    28.8kbps = 3.6KB/s = 216KB/minute I know what you mean, but I remember waiting about 10 minutes for a megabyte on a 14.4k connection, and about 5 minutes on 56k. Because the phone wires were crap, the modem never synced faster than about 35k.
• klez 10y ago
  It has all those image because it's the text version of a presentation. Those are the slides the text is referring to.
  • lucideer 10y ago
    Ah, thanks for clarifying. I missed that. Yeah, I wasn't criticising the size, rather just making a meta-comment of the same form the author made himself in the article.