• Beaver [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    When everyone was on dial-up, that would add another minute to the load time of the site. The internet was slow as hell in 2001. And that goes for the web hosts as well - on 9/11, all of the news sites ended up posting simple static pages because they were getting hammered by visitors.