HTML has had the potential to fill that role since day one, but while today we're talking about sites sitting blank for 5 seconds because they're downloading me

HTML has had the potential to fill that role since day one, but while today we're talking about sites sitting blank for 5 seconds because they're downloading megabytes of garbage, back then we had pages sitting blank for 60 seconds because they were downloading 101KB+ of totally insane HTML and animated GIFs of dancing babies and nuclear explosions.