> Images were nice but were also avoided as they made pages "slow". The main reason lightboxes and other clickable thumbnails came into existence. I first used

> Images were nice but were also avoided as they made pages "slow". The main reason lightboxes and other clickable thumbnails came into existence. I first used the web in 1995 and websites definitely used inline images. The images were mostly small GIF images but they were definitely there. Every web authoring guide implored you to set explicit sizes on img tags so browsers wouldn't have to do a full repaint as images loaded. Modems weren't that slow in the mid-90s, 14.4k modems were common and 28.8k modems were starting to be the default OEM option.