that's correct, just your basic VPS running nginx
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the GUI design of this era was really something else, its hard to describe but the UIs felt so discoverable, the basic core features were presented up front and easy to use, intermediate features could be found in widgets surrounding the core UI, and a whole set of advanced features within the menus once you've mastered your surroundings. It's as if the UIs of the time were designed to create an efficient learning path, at the expense of some information overload when first using the application.
This is an interesting premise, do you know of any tools that optimize web pages for parsing and rendering speed as opposed to size? I wrote a tool once that bundles and archives webpages for offline viewing, and in those cases network throughput is not an issue since files are stored locally. It could be interesting to see what performance benefits I might be able to get from optimizing for parsing speed in this case, although I suspect the performance differences will be so negligible that it won't make much of a difference. Still would be an interesting experiment nonetheless.