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Re:Ask HN: Displaying a million images on a page, in a way t... by terryjsmith on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @08:35PM (#1670643)
Just look into lazy loading. Google image search is doing it, as it Facebook now as far as I can tell. Basically all of your images on one page and you load them based on the user's scrolling and what's visible. There's a plugin available from jQuery that can help get you started:

http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/lazyload

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Re:Ask HN: Displaying a million images on a page, in a way t... by Rayzar on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @09:25PM (#1670706)
Yeah, I saw this on Facebook recently and was thinking of looking into it, thanks for the link!
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