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In 1996, with a typical 28.8k modem, that page would've taken more than 20 seconds to load. I'm quite sentimental and nostalgic about the web of yore but let's not pretend everything wasn't a lot slower for most people back then.

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Absolutely, I do recall a lot of griping around that time about images and how much they slowed down the web. Look how image-heavy the old CNN pages are. There's over 50KB of images there and only 3K of text.

Fortunately, web browsers of the era let you turn off loading of images or you could use a text-only browser like Lynx.

all the images also include width/height attributes so it would have rendered without needing to load the images and just lazy loaded them.

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