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by int_19h 1362 days ago
That was Opera Mini, and it's still around (and popular in areas where Internet speed is still measured in Kbps and/or you pay for data per megabyte).

It's not even that it served a minified version, too. It basically did all layout server-side, so the client got something more akin to a PDF of the webpage optimized for its screen size. It also compressed images.