On a sunny day (Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:05:18 -0700) it happened Rich Grise wrote in :
Opera, although I use an old version, and it sucks with targeted advertising, has a 'turbo' mode. That loads and displays any text first, then after you see that text press stop. Saves a lot of bandwidth too. Really saves time on things like CNN (that is just lies anyways), it just displays the text. Or you could perhaps use lynx, the text based Unix browser...