In the web’s early days responsible webmasters were constantly excusing if they used many images on their home pages. It could take ages to download over dialup or even crash Netscape. The typical form was “heavy graphics coming up, click here to proceed”; the pictured JavaScript alert box would leave no choice though: users could (and still can) only click OK and hope for the best.
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