10 gig is amazing!

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Hahahahhah.

I made it up, but if be happy for it to be adopted.

Ah yes, and the old “flash some faded out rectangles” to prepare you for that sweet, sweet, information that’s coming any… moment… now…

No, now…

Now…

The key idea remains though. Text on a page, fast. No objections with (gasp) colours, if the author would like to add some.

Yep.

On a rare occasion I hit a website that loads just like “boom” and it surprises me.

Why is that? Because now we are used to having to wait for javascript to load, decompress, parse, JIT, transmogrify, rejimble and perform two rinse cycles just to see the opening times for the supermarket.

(And that’s after you dismissed the cookie, discount/offer and mailing list nags with obfuscated X buttons and all other manner of dark patterns to keep you engaged)

Sometimes I wish we’d just stopped at gopher :)

See also: https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

EDIT: Yes, this is facetious.

What’s an average Internet connection like in the USA? How many megs down?

So much nostalgia for the Windows 95/98 era.

Playing Descent with musicmatch jukebox running in the background. (Probably a 98 memory).

Bouncing sheep…

I just use syncthing to copy music to my phone sd card.

It can’t be worse than tex!