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Those are some extremely rose colored glasses you are wearing if you think web pages loaded instantly in the 90's I remember using the web on a 56k modem (whic
by Klathmon 9y ago
Those are some extremely rose colored glasses you are wearing if you think web pages loaded instantly in the 90's
I remember using the web on a 56k modem (which was pretty damn fast!) and waiting 30+ seconds for pages to fully load.
- tdy721 9y agoThe text was still fast. And I NEVER saw had the text disappear for a second while the page updated the font... The text was still fast, and the developers assumed you had a crappy modem in at least 80% of cases. The web is getting slower.
- torrent-of-ions 9y agoOf course 56k was slow. It's 56k. But if you ever used a faster line in the 90s it was virtually instant. Everyone has those faster lines now, but it's never instant.