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How do you guys remember the early days of the internet? What do you miss about it?
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this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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Porn pics that loaded line by line, from top to bottom. There was a real sense of mystery and tension.
OH, shit, we've finally got nipples! God, this is going to be so hot in a couple of minutes.
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And images in general.
It's funny cause it led to a whole type of meme (where the bottom of the image is shockingly different) that never works anymore.
I loved when the image turned out to be a progressive JPEG, where you got to see the whole image right away but it was super blurry. Then as the image continued to download, more details were revealed. It was kind of like a real-life version of the “image enhancement” tool that was in every crime drama later. It was also fun to try and guess what the really blurry parts were before the image fully downloaded.
It really was a great format when I surfed the web with my 14.4 or 28.8 modem.
I was on prodigy and it used to be only vector art. I remember when I downloaded my first photograph on there. Line by line until a baseball player emerged. I instantly realized that this was going to change everything and within 24h had naked pictures sent to my deskjet.