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People wanted faster renditions of pages
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Pages now contain text, images, audio, etc.
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Infamous hack: Multiple parallel TCP connections
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This actually makes a lot of sense
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TCP sockets are easy to program
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You get a lot of resources from OS and the Net
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One problem - impact on Net a disaster
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Web applications were wasting huge amounts of resources.
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Servers did not do any real work