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I guess clipart played a big role in landing pages for news events on the early internet.

At least, that’s what I’m assuming after looking at CNN’s landing page for the O.J. Simpson trial in 1995. They clearly knew the page needed to be visually interesting but also load relatively quickly on a 56k modem. Why not clipart!

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