If one were to transport these modern web devs to the time of 56Kbs they'd find things were just as bloated given the capacities of the time. The only question is what novel use of <blink> they'd find.
As example, here is A List Apart in 1999 "CODE: Broadband, schmoadband. In the real world, we must trick our pages into loading faster."
A List Apart is one of those sites that just impresses me with their content. I'm not a UI guy, and from time to time have to remember how to do something I had done somewhere else usually something to do with CSS. There's a specific example on Taming Lists from them that I refer to any time I'm trying to do inline lists that makes them play/feel nice other than display:inline.
If I'm ever searching for a CSS something and receive A List Apart link, it gets clicked
As example, here is A List Apart in 1999 "CODE: Broadband, schmoadband. In the real world, we must trick our pages into loading faster."
https://web.archive.org/web/19981212012511/http://alistapart...