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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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