Kb stands for kilobyte, and means 1000 characters. A character is a letter, digit, space, or punctuation mark. "Kb" is used on the IANDS website to let you know how many characters larger pages contain. The number of characters that a page contains directly affects how long it will take to display on your screen.

The IANDS website tries to be respectful of your time. If a page would take more than about 30 seconds to display on a 28.8K baud connection, you are forewarned.

• If your browser permits it, hovering your mouse over the link will bring up a small box giving the approximate times it would take to fully see the page at various common connection speeds;
• Or, if your browser settings permit it, clicking on "Kb" will bring up a similar small box.
• Otherwise, the approximate size of the page is shown in kilobytes (Kb) to allow you to estimate how long it will take to display a page that you are considering looking at, and hovering your mouse over the size will show you the approximate time it should take at 28.8K.

The times and sizes of smaller pages are not shown. Of course the time will vary if you are running at a different speed, or if there are delays between you and our site.

If you are connected at high speeds, or are willing to wait, you can ignore these size indications.

It takes about 10 seconds for a 30Kb page to fully display on a 28.8K connection, 20 seconds for a 60Kb page, etc. It takes about 6 seconds for a 30Kb page to fully display on a 50K connection, 12 seconds for a 60Kb page, etc. The times for other speeds or sizes are proportional.