1999
Thirty minutes to log in
The server can't cope. Logging in takes up to half an hour, and people wait anyway, to write ”heeey what u doing?? :D:D”.
It could take half an hour just to log in to the site. If someone can put up with reloading a page for over half an hour, that means, in commercial terms, extreme demand.
- Over 80 % of new registrations were abandoned because the server was so slow (August 1999).
- The users sat with ”buzzing 56k modems” (the prologue).
- The podcast 2016: ”It could take up to half an hour just to log in to the site. And still people did it.”
- P4 Östergötland, Swedish public radio's local station in Östergötland, 2016: at most 43,000 members in the Stajl Plejs days.
Sources: Internetstiftelsen 2014 · Arvika 2024 · Internetmuseum-podden #7: Rickard Eriksson och Andreas Harnemo