The joke back then was you’d give the link to a friend and watch them sit there for 5 minutes looking at the neverending “loading” screen. A ton of (what were then new) flash based websites overused it and loading screens were common, so people expected to wait a bit before everything was loaded in. Everything beyond simple static HTML was done with plugins and applets.
Let’s bring back ytmnd while where at it
Was about to say Zombo.com too but then I remembered it’s actually still up after all these years.
Damn I just went there. Is there an end to the Ugandan knuckles voice over?
The joke back then was you’d give the link to a friend and watch them sit there for 5 minutes looking at the neverending “loading” screen. A ton of (what were then new) flash based websites overused it and loading screens were common, so people expected to wait a bit before everything was loaded in. Everything beyond simple static HTML was done with plugins and applets.