With websites, you know it's on purpose. With dial up, it was just the technology back then

Well it's correct behavior. Websites from the 90s should load instantly now. Any website loading longer should deliver some amazing content that was impossible in the 90s

Why do websites have to ship 12 MB of JavaScript before they even start to load? In lots of cases SPA have no benefits for the user and just make everything bloated and complex as hell and due to the insanity of the JavaScript packaging also super hard to keep safe / up to date.

Tbf you did experience when websites took 0.1 seconds to load also.

Why do you need so many JavaScript libraries!? I just need to know if I can afford to eat today!?

Non corpo sites I wait. Corpo site, i quit and conclude that site is broken without its ads.

I remember there was a fan made Star Trek you could download from their site and watch. For the early 00 or was very high quality.

And on our dialup internet it would literally take a whole day to download lol. We'd start the download then we'd all just leave the house to not curse the download and when we came home it was loaded.

We got broadband soon after, I went to test and I COULD SEE THE BAR MOVING ON THE DOWNLOAD

It was amazing!

I get angry at websites now that do not load in an instant. Oops.

"Did my time waiting"

That's because you know that it doesn't have to be that way with current technology

Websites were quick back then too because they were incredibly basic. XHTML was the beginning of the downfall of mankind

I'll just say remember old 240p YT buffering

Yeah, because you remember that magical moment when you first got DSL or Cable Internet while the web was still built for dial up. Like any available overhead, and bandwidth gets stuffed.

For a while now pages load "at once" as if it's a single thing to load, but back in the day you could actually see pages load in parts. If things were dire you could turn off image loading, or simply click the stop loading button because the content you wanted was loaded, just not the whole page.

With an adblocker, sites load faster, but some still take fucking forever.

I also remember one airline company's site used to work perfectly and was very quick back in 2010-17. One of the more recent "updates" was seemingly to make it stop working on desktop browsers - no, seriously, when trying to buy seats on a desktop browser, the fucking thing will fucking crash when it reaches the "choose your seat" page. My dad complained about it ~2 years ago. Of course the company didn't do shit, as I recently found out firsthand.

Running ad blockers speeds things up. They always load those first.

Back in the day, you'd keep a small TV next to your computer so you have something to do while you wait for a page to load or download a 3MB file.

Tbf, a lot of that wait it all the trackers getting swatted away. Rarely is it just too much shit coming from too far away on a shitty series of nodes.

I'm not that old and honestly I don't mind if a web page takes 5 seconds to load, after that I start to wonder if they or I fucked something up. But I'm not fed up or anything, just anxious

I stayed on BBS at home until broadband became available at my house.

Even the heaviest JavaScript sites still load in under 5s. Static sites are not viable for most sites these days. Users expect responsive design, not needing to load a new page all the time.

Dude looks rough to allegedly be under 40