With the advent of CDNs, edge routing and global hosting, things have actually gotten way better for those of us who use US based websites from the other side o

With the advent of CDNs, edge routing and global hosting, things have actually gotten way better for those of us who use US based websites from the other side of the world. I am from India and back in 1990s the latency used to be huge because we had internet via satellite. Then we got internet via submarine cables but even with that latency is > 300ms for a server based in the US. Now in 2021, most popular websites use CDNs and have servers based out datacentres closer to India and the page load speed and latency has gone down significantly for us. But page bloat is a different matter, I still remember spending the greater part of a day (or maybe more0 downloading the MSIE 2.0 installer on a 1200bps dial up modem. Today page sizes > 1mb are common even on mobile sites.