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Because most dial up website pages took 5 seconds or less to load.
I found one of the most graphic heavy websites from 1998, sttng.com and it was 50KB. That's 10 seconds to load on a 56kbs modem (you'd never actually get 56kbs).
I mean 56/8 = 7 kB/s, 50/7 = 7.x, just add a bit of latency here and there, not really a surprise if it takes 10 seconds
Yes that's why I said 10 seconds. I looked up the webpage on way back and divided it by 56kbs.
Wow only $5000 to own that domain! What a bargen.
It was owned/run by a teen that was signed up as a customer on my ISP. He got a legal letter from Paramount and gave it up.
My grandparents still had dialup in the 2010s. I can remember in the early 2000s waiting 20-30 minutes for a Strong Bad Email to start playing so I could show my cousins.
Flash is what really changed things.
There was a noticeably bigger lag if it was across an ocean.