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kccqzy on Oct 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen ...

The web at that time didn't need full browsers to be enjoyable. Most websites were like what Hacker News is right now: just simple HTML, little to no JavaScript, and easy on bandwidth.

scarface74 on Oct 2, 2019 [–]

By 2005, Flash was ubiquitous and one of the knocks against the iPhone in 2007 was that it couldn’t run Flash. Plug ins were ubiquitous and bloated MySpace pages and Geocities was a thing.

Home broadband adoption was already 40% (https://www.pewinternet.org/2006/05/28/home-broadband-adopti...)

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