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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by fbelzile on Friday February 07, 2020 @09:34PM (#22273409)
Wow. The page source is gold.

No kidding. Firefox's inspector tool just crashed (went white and unresponsive) while I was making a list of the worst offenses:

- h2, h4, h5 used interchangeably

- embedded wav file loading an image

- loading all JavaScript just below body tag

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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by tantalor on Friday February 07, 2020 @10:44PM (#22273676)
What's so bad about loading scripts after body?
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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by adventured on Saturday February 08, 2020 @01:05AM (#22274234)
They're referring to loading the scripts right after the opening body tag (rather than at the end of the body), which historically would block content loading until the scripts all load.
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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by josteink on Saturday February 08, 2020 @09:46AM (#22275940)
Back then scripts literally were 1kb at most and not 15mb like today, so it really wasn’t much of a problem.
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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by eyelidlessness on Saturday February 08, 2020 @11:06AM (#22276408)
Back then it took ten minutes to load 1kb
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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by josteink on Saturday February 08, 2020 @02:04PM (#22277647)
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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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by eyelidlessness on Monday February 10, 2020 @12:01PM (#22290897)
Hyperbole is lost on 100% of people on the internet.
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Re:Lycos is still around and its search is pretty good by trehalose on Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:09AM (#22274048)
When I saw "embedded wav file loading an image", I was mystified and curious what that even meant, so I looked, and I didn't see. The only wav file I noticed in the source was on the Biler page, and I didn't see anything that suggested it was loading an image, but I didn't look very closely and I guess I'm not sure what to look for. I didn't read the JavaScript at all really, but I searched for "bgsound" with no results but the bgsound element itself, and it has no id and I don't know how else it could be referenced.
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