> 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.