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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Elizafox@treehouse.systems ("Elizabeth :therian: :cascadia:") wrote:
People who've only ever known broadband often imagine dial-up as "just slower internet." It really wasn't lol.
What was practical was fundamentally different. Clicking the wrong link could cost you several minutes and stall your browser. Also tabs didn't exist just additional windows.
A page with a few megabytes of JavaScript is effectively unusable on dialup. Which is... most of them 🙃.