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8 seconds! I remember browsing the Web in the early 2000s on a good connection and pages loaded fully in a matter of milliseconds. It was often imperceptible. O
by black-tea 8y ago
8 seconds! I remember browsing the Web in the early 2000s on a good connection and pages loaded fully in a matter of milliseconds. It was often imperceptible. Oh how we've regressed.
- SquareWheel 8y ago>I remember browsing the Web in the early 2000s on a good connection and pages loaded fully in a matter of milliseconds. That has to be rose-tinted glasses. Networks used to be excruciatingly slow. I would walk away waiting for page loads during the dial-up era. Our expectations have simply been adjusted over time.
- jefftk 8y agoIf black-tea had a good connection at a time when the rest of us were on dial-up, and all the sites were coded expecting dial-up, they may well have seen excellent load times! (But yeah, I remember the internet being super slow. JPEGs coming down scanline-by-scanline.)
- gtf21 8y agoI don't remember it being milliseconds, but it definitely didn't take _this_ long, especially not if I had had the same connection speed I have now.