Why bother?
I had to talk to a guy the other day who had a seven hundred frame .GIF on his website homepage. it was about eight MB. The page as a whole was nearly 18MB. I did a bit of maths afterwards and worked out that it'd take nearly 35 minutes to load it on a dialup connection.
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Noit happy baby orangutan, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 18:24,
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NEXT WEEK ON MUNDANE MATHS
WORKING OUT HOW MANY ATOMS ARE IN A PENCIL
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Every time somebody loaded the page it cost him 4p.
I refreshed it a few times and got my colleagues to do the same.
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Noit happy baby orangutan, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 18:30,
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And even then, you'd probably lose the connection partway through and have to start again.
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The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 18:25,
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