> My clim is that the modern web is bloated.

Your claim that I responded to was that web browsers were just as fast on 25MHz CPUs.

> I had t3 connections for most of my browsing which was faster than ethernet of the day - even by todays standards that isn't too bad.

T3 speeds are very slow in today's terms. Even my cell phone does a couple orders of magnitude better from where I'm sitting.

There are a lot of weird claims going on in your posts. I think it's a lot of nostalgia coloring your views of how fast things were in the past.

the modern web is very bloted and to the actual experinece isn't much different. Of course some of that bloat does more, but much of it isn't

If you want to complain about the state of modern web, you can just do it. You don't need to spin up a story about how the old internet was faster than it actually was.

This is the same pattern you see in politics when people on all sides (even the nominally progressive ones) lie to each other about how great the olden days were, when in reality it's all about their dissatisfaction with the present day.

The subject here is what if computers hadn't advanced from the 1990s. Complaining about modern web bloat would be off topic. Commenting about how things weren't much slower fits the topic though.