Absolutely, I do recall a lot of griping around that time about images and how much they slowed down the web. Look how image-heavy the old CNN pages are. Ther

Absolutely, I do recall a lot of griping around that time about images and how much they slowed down the web. Look how image-heavy the old CNN pages are. There's over 50KB of images there and only 3K of text. Fortunately, web browsers of the era let you turn off loading of images or you could use a text-only browser like Lynx.