Low bandwidth recollections I have Dialup modems , 2400 baud 33K and finally 56K Dialup connections early in morning, say 5 - 6 am would give very noticeably faster webpage loading times Mail client ( like Eudora email client) connect and just load email headers ( or titles) then select which emails I wanted to retrieve the bodies for... This would have been early 90s to early 2000s , when I stopped using dial up connection.