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Re:HTTP/3 Is Fast by jefftk on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:03AM (#29564805)
> it was perfectly possible to have functional, fast, and reliable webpages and applications in the 90s and early 00s

I think you have an overly rosy view of the time. Yes, some things were fast, especially if you had an unusually good connection, but the average person's experience of the internet was much slower and less reliable.

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Re:HTTP/3 Is Fast by 5e92cb50239222b on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @07:12AM (#29564885)
I used dial-up until around 2010. Yes, pages were loading pretty much forever, but once it's been loaded, it was fast (and I always use mid-level hardware at best). I was used to opening up to 100 pages on my shitty Celeron with 128 MBs of RAM with Opera 9 (I think). Because dial-up is paid by the minute and you really have to open as many pages as possible and read them all later. It worked just fine. Then the fat client/SPA devolution happened; you know the rest.
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