I used dial-up until around 2010. Yes, pages were loading pretty much forever, but once it's been loaded, it was fast (and I always use mid-level hardware at be

I used dial-up until around 2010. Yes, pages were loading pretty much forever, but once it's been loaded, it was fast (and I always use mid-level hardware at best). I was used to opening up to 100 pages on my shitty Celeron with 128 MBs of RAM with Opera 9 (I think). Because dial-up is paid by the minute and you really have to open as many pages as possible and read them all later. It worked just fine. Then the fat client/SPA devolution happened; you know the rest.