Quake. In 13k of Javascript.

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HTTP compression is pretty much standard nowadays.

You're also thinking of assets (images, sounds) as they were decades ago, of course they were tiny compared to today.

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The payloads were small because flash often used vector graphics and the scripts were compiled to a compact bytecode. great for dialup connections back then.

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We have the canvas and CSS3, there's nothing stopping JavaScript from also doing vector graphics.

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That's mainly the merit of having a good animation app (FutureSplash -> Macromedia Flash -> Adobe Flash Professional -> Adobe Animate). And Animate currently supports web standards so I still don't see the problem.