"Lately it seems that everybody is "getting online" and "surfing the web." Never before has technology allowed so much information to be accessible to everybody at one time. Though more often than not, the majority of your time online is spent waiting. Waiting for pages to load and files to transfer. It is estimated that in America, several billion hours were wasted last year, as people waited for web sites to load"
http://www.onzin.nl/internetdownload/
http://www.onzin.nl/internetdownload/