8 seconds! I remember browsing the Web in the early 2000s on a good connection and pages loaded fully in a matter of milliseconds. It was often imperceptible. Oh how we've regressed.
>I remember browsing the Web in the early 2000s on a good connection and pages loaded fully in a matter of milliseconds.
That has to be rose-tinted glasses. Networks used to be excruciatingly slow. I would walk away waiting for page loads during the dial-up era. Our expectations have simply been adjusted over time.
If black-tea had a good connection at a time when the rest of us were on dial-up, and all the sites were coded expecting dial-up, they may well have seen excellent load times!
(But yeah, I remember the internet being super slow. JPEGs coming down scanline-by-scanline.)
