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josteink
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Lycos is still around and its search is pretty goo...
Back then scripts literally were 1kb at most and not 15mb like today, so it really wasn’t much of a problem.
eyelidlessness
on Feb 8, 2020
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Back then it took ten minutes to load 1kb
josteink
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It wasn’t that bad. I remember downloading fairly high res JPEGs (so 30-50kb) on a 36k modem back then, and
that
might have taken a minute.
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