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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Because most dial up website pages took 5 seconds or less to load.

I found one of the most graphic heavy websites from 1998, sttng.com and it was 50KB. That's 10 seconds to load on a 56kbs modem (you'd never actually get 56kbs).

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[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

My grandparents still had dialup in the 2010s. I can remember in the early 2000s waiting 20-30 minutes for a Strong Bad Email to start playing so I could show my cousins.

Flash is what really changed things.

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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I mean 56/8 = 7 kB/s, 50/7 = 7.x, just add a bit of latency here and there, not really a surprise if it takes 10 seconds

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yes that's why I said 10 seconds. I looked up the webpage on way back and divided it by 56kbs.

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[–] homik@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago

There was a noticeably bigger lag if it was across an ocean.

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[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

Wow only $5000 to own that domain! What a bargen.

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

It was owned/run by a teen that was signed up as a customer on my ISP. He got a legal letter from Paramount and gave it up.

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