Loading this today is more/less instant. Even on dialup it would have been seconds. And HN-style content does not represent the majority of bandwidth usage, or

Loading this today is more/less instant. Even on dialup it would have been seconds. And HN-style content does not represent the majority of bandwidth usage, or the new applications that make use of higher bandwidth. TikTok simply couldn’t have existed in the dial up days, a company now worth billions. That has happened consistently with communications technology over the past century. Why would we think it should stop now?