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by stavros 307 days ago
No need to be surprised, 512 kbps isn't enough because it would take a gif half a minute to load at those speeds. We just didn't send gifs back then.
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nly 307 days ago
We totally did, and they loaded and played progressively. More like we weren't pushing 20MB of JavaScript to people browsers.
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Atheros 307 days ago
The Dancing Baby gif, which was abnormally large, and went viral via email in 1996, is around 220 KB. At this speed, it would load in 3.5 seconds. And being 4 seconds long, it could stream.
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Grimblewald 307 days ago
No even that was fine and common. Massive blocks of ads, analytics, etc werent the norm though and i for one miss a time we wouldnt conceive of introducing it.
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