• noughtnaut
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    1 year ago

    They had one more thing that was the bomb back when 56kbit was enviable, and that was that when you turned off the image loading (some browsers still support “offline” mode, this was a subset of that) it would still display any images that it had in its cache - so you could read your news with the common page elements rendered but not spend time downloading huge article images.

    I’ll shut up now before I reveal my age… 😅

    • @Countmacula
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      11 year ago

      Their Java mobile browser and early smartphone browser was pivotal for early cell data plans.