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Yeah...back in the 90s, a webpage was a text file, usually a couple of Kb tops, maybe a small gif or three. No pulling in Mb of frameworks, no client side executable content, just plain content. If it took 10m to load at 9600, you were doing it wrong (or were targeting the folks with DDS/T1/T3 connectivity). If you were serving out a big file, you often did it over FTP.


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