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Images would load forever. Good websites had images twice, a low-resolution variant to load fast, to be replaced by the high-resolution one that eventually loaded. Other websites had images that loaded interlaced - separated in 4 strata that you could watch being built up.

I remember when some supergenius sent the first email as a word document with a 2 mb company logo embedded, and loading that took some 20 minutes - each minute being metered indivdually, only to then contain two lines of text that ought have been the mail body...

The internet was better back in the day - but it was not faster.




> Other websites had images that loaded interlaced - separated in 4 strata that you could watch being built up.

That's called progressive JPEG, and it's still around.




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