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Thankfully this article uses GIF thumnails instead of the full sized images. Thanks to that, I was able to load the page very quickly with my 500 Mbps bandwidth.


I mean it's a webpage from 1994, it literally had to deal with internet speeds in the near baud range.


I know. It just amuses me to see such a great example of how much our expectations for websites have changed. In 2022, the connection latency and TLS logic actually impact the load time more than the size of the page.




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