While the modem performance boost due to trellis modulation was of relatively minor significance for browsing simple web pages composed almost entirely of static text (of which link farms were once a prominent example), it was game-changer for everything else, in particular, the online distribution of bulky software packages and patches, and early experiments in Internet video such as RealPlayer, where a 56k-class modem could reasonably deliver an almost-smooth 320×200 video under optimal conditions (the effective video compression rate being also limited by the compute power of the era).