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Have you forgotten how slow 56k dial-up was? A high-quality 1MP JPEG would take the best part of a minute to load under ideal conditions. Firefox lets you simul
by globular-toast 3y ago
Have you forgotten how slow 56k dial-up was? A high-quality 1MP JPEG would take the best part of a minute to load under ideal conditions. Firefox lets you simulate this in the responsive design mode. You can view the website at a resolution of the day (like 1025x768) and throttle the speed to GPRS, which is similar to 56k speed. You can easily see why they used small images. Having the larger images available was just them being nice, but it wasn't at all practical to have them by default.
Amazing to think that today we expect videos to start playing instantly.
- regularfry 3y agoThe other thing is that at 1024x768 a 300px image isn't actually that small. On a 16" screen it would have been something like 5" diagonally.
- Arrath 3y agoWatching images load in line by line at a torturously slow pace over dialup may have helped me build such zen-like patience. ....or explain my appreciation for delayed gratification. Didn't even know I was developing that as a teenager.