• TimeSquirrel@kbin.socialOP
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        1 year ago

        The joke back then was you’d give the link to a friend and watch them sit there for 5 minutes looking at the neverending “loading” screen. A ton of (what were then new) flash based websites overused it and loading screens were common, so people expected to wait a bit before everything was loaded in. Everything beyond simple static HTML was done with plugins and applets.