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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.
(, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 18:24, archived)
NEXT WEEK ON MUNDANE MATHS
WORKING OUT HOW MANY ATOMS ARE IN A PENCIL
(, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 18:25, archived)
Every time somebody loaded the page it cost him 4p.
I refreshed it a few times and got my colleagues to do the same.
(, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 18:30, archived)
And even then, you'd probably lose the connection partway through and have to start again.

(, Wed 10 Mar 2010, 18:25, archived)