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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
Part of good website design back then was to set up the webpage so it shows the structure first, then fills in over the rest of the time, and also why interlacing was used a lot for images, so you could see the image gradually form over the load time vs. top to bottom or nothing at all until the end.
If you're really old enough, you remember being able to read the BBS text as it came in.
With dial up, it felt like it was working. It was trying its best.
Now it feels like it's bogged down with ads and tracking and bots.
Dial up was offering you something you might not have ever seen before.
Not loading your page full of ads while you try to pay a utility bill.
or billions of redirects. I am looking at you, SAP.
I concur
Remember early 2000s when one of the metrics to be a good website was how many milliseconds it took to load?
If your site had 120ms of overhead, it wasn't professional.
Pepperidge Farms remembers!
Ironic
Back then if it took more then that to load it was because you picked on a piece of media not the homepage.
Nowadays it's them making you download 300MB of JS so they can make images rotate in a gallery.
/300MB of trackers
Yea JavaScript.
Nowadays I ragequit every site that doesn't have a "reject all cookies" option.
If you’re that old, you earned instant webpage load times.
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).
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.
There was a noticeably bigger lag if it was across an ocean.
If it takes 5 seconds to load the website it’s not going to finish. That’s usually an issue at the other end of the intertube.
Or Cloudflare being Cloudflare.
If it only takes five seconds to rage quit, you've got issues.
