That was the high bandwidth page for those with an OK connection! The Beeb used to have a low bandwidth text only version of every page, but those weren't prese

That was the high bandwidth page for those with an OK connection! The Beeb used to have a low bandwidth text only version of every page, but those weren't preserved - the text link will now bring you back to that page again. Let's see, 2000. Most would be on dial-up, ADSL was either in very early roll out or pre-roll out hype - so nearly everyone waiting on exchanges to be converted. Techies probably had BT Highway, a dual 64k ISDN link. That always seemed really fast, and way faster than many of today's bloatware sites now feel. Insane page and JS weight with dozens of third party calls every page came later. Early broadband, before pages grew to over-compensate for that bandwidth was delightful! Downloads and Dial up could feel sluggish, especially when you hit the sites being "clever and disruptive" with Macromedia Flash (not many yet), or a site that didn't know how to do thumbnails or image optimisation (quite a few. Usually pages with little 10x10 icons that were really 1024x768 images etc). :)