So it looks like the JQuery plugin that is used to create the tables only supports requesting data for the table once. This, along with the limitation of the API that you can only request the most recent transactions from 0 - n, means that in order to view the first transaction, every transaction in the entire blockchain has to be loaded at once. In order to fix this, the "getlasttxs" API call has to be updated, and we need to find a new way to display the transaction data. If fixing the API is too difficult, the new fetch API can help with progressively loading data.
So it looks like the JQuery plugin that is used to create the tables only supports requesting data for the table once. This, along with the limitation of the API that you can only request the most recent transactions from 0 - n, means that in order to view the first transaction, every transaction in the entire blockchain has to be loaded at once. In order to fix this, the "getlasttxs" API call has to be updated, and we need to find a new way to display the transaction data. If fixing the API is too difficult, the new fetch API can help with progressively loading data.