[marginalia_nu]

Eh, 30 seconds maybe if it was a lot of images?

I remember it took about 20-30 minutes to download an mp3 in the dialup days. Most websites were in the kilobytes because everyone was on dialup. Also keep in mind most screens would have been 640x480, so it's not like you were getting high res images.

[Accacin]

I remember waiting like a whole night to download an MP3. When I tried to play it the next day, my laptop was so old and slow that it couldn't play the MP3 without stuttering :D

[dijit]

Small reminder that the PS1 was so weak it couldn't even play 128kbit (IE; quite poor quality) MP3s in real time

[cookiengineer]

> Eh, 30 seconds maybe if it was a lot of images?

Depends on the amount of gifs people were placing on their website :D We only had a 56k modem at the time. The Browser was provided by the ISP at first due to lack of dial-up software that supported the German ISPs, so it was loading all kinds of injected stuff from the ISP, too.

But yeah, I agree with the general sentiment that websites usually loaded way faster if you were using e.g. IE3 on purpose because it didn't load all the stylesheets and images.

[marginalia_nu]

I think it depends on when we are speaking. 56k became increasingly miserable as higher speeds became the norm.