Because static HTML takes us back to the days where there's a webmaster and that's it. Every image would be uploaded and programmed in by me.
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Edit: For reference though, this is a very small page. We add a few kilobytes above what the image size is in code. About 1-2 seconds on a 56k dialup modem + image load time.
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