Comment by antidamage
8 days ago
It's not an accurate recollection at all. In 1990 a couple of us 12 year olds snuck into the university library to use the web to look at the Marathon website. It took 5 minutes to load some trivially-sized gifs and a tiny amount of HTML. They had a pretty decent connection for the day.
Web pages took a minute to load, now we're optimising them for instant response.
That's really cool you visited in 1990, three years before the first graphical web browser, a website with image about a game released in 1994.