My GeoCities page with a MIDI file and 8 animated GIFs loaded faster in 1998 than my cousin's "clean" Angelfire page ever did

Tara King · 2026-10-19T19:20:02.640746+00:00

Turns out his 14 nested tables and a 200KB background image were the real culprits, not the spinning envelope, so now I want to know: what was the weirdest thing that actually killed your dial-up load time back in the day?

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