Subj : Re: 286 Is So Cool!
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Nightfox
Date : Thu Apr 18 2024 15:04:23

  Re: Re: 286 Is So Cool!
  By: MIKE POWELL to KIRKSPRAGG on Thu Apr 18 2024 08:35 am

 MP> I can remember it being somewhat slow on a Pentium-166 but part of the
 MP> reason there was that I was still on dial-up.  ;)  I cannot imagine trying
 MP> to use a graphic web browser on anything much slower.  IMHO, a lot of web
 MP> pages these days are made to make things run slow.

I first started using the internet in late 1995, and at the time, I had a 386DX-40 running DOS and Windows 3.1, and either a 14.4k or 33.6k modem (I don't remember which I had by then).  I was using Netscape on Windows (I think I started with version 2 or something), and I remember it being usable.  Web sites back then were fairly light compared to web sites today, so it wasn't too bad.  I think the bottleneck at the time was probably the dialup modem speed.

Nightfox
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