I put it a few years earlier, when people began including pictures and other media with their text, often for no better reason than that HTML allowed them to do

I put it a few years earlier, when people began including pictures and other media with their text, often for no better reason than that HTML allowed them to do so. Then there was Java. And Javaskirpt. And Flash. I think it'd be fun to see a graph of the average information entropy of one's internet connection. In the 90s that number was necessarily quite high. Today, even people who forego video content would have trouble spiking it up.