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Incorrect. I was there the moment this flipped. It was actually with a bang, not a whimper. The iPhone came out. Before the iPhone DSL was a thing, making big-
by Justsignedup 8y ago
Incorrect. I was there the moment this flipped. It was actually with a bang, not a whimper.
The iPhone came out. Before the iPhone DSL was a thing, making big-ish pages was a thing.
Suddenly your pages had to be downloaded on a 2g connection. Eventually 3g, and 3g today is seen as insanity, but back then was the best we can get and still only few could get that.
We started to minify the hell out of our code. Every byte was critical. CDNs were used to speed every bit of our site up. Google came out with their research that you have ~150ms to serve content before it stops feeling instantaneous.
Boom.
Eventually tools came out to make all this so easy, why wouldn't you do it.
And thus here we are today.
I was using the internet when AltaVista was a thing. Searching was SLOW! If you wanted to find something online, grab a cup of tea, because its gonna be a while.