Also, page load times improved considerably, because of multiple requests to multiple locations...
As I recall from reading about improving response time a year or so ago, most browsers will only send 2 concurrent requests to the same hostname (such as www.clygm.com). That's why you'll often see larger websites with names like img1.corp.com and img2.corp.com. Every other image gets served from the alternate hostname, and thus 4 images can be served to your browser at once.