Originally posted by Not Stock
Most of the time taken to load pages is from taglines. Without tagline images, the text-only pages load up in approx 2 seconds on a 56k modem. With images, can take 3 minutes or longer. Big difference.
When people are considerate of others, everyone gets to play (and read).
try using lynx, it's a text browser that doesn't load images, avaiable for linux and windows
http://lynx.browser.org/