Comment by lelanthran

> No, browsing the web in the early 90s was slooow. Even simple web pages took a long time to load. As you said, internet connections were very slow too. I remember visiting pages with photos that would come with a warning about the size of the page, at which point I’d get up and go get a drink or take a break while it loaded.

At home, when I was on dialup, certainly.

At work I did not experience this. Most pages loaded in Netscape navigator in about the same time that most pages load now - a few seconds.

> Then scrolling pages with images would feel like the computer was working hard.

Well, yes, single-core, single-socket and single-processor meant that the computer could literally only do a single thing at a time, and yet the scrolling experience on most sites was still good enough to be better than the scrolling experience on some current React sites.