had to wait for titty pics to load one line at a time, and we liked it that way…
We really did not like that.
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DarkGamer@kbin.social 2 months ago
Back in my day the Internet was better, no video, we had to connect with 56k moderns, the hardware cost a fortune, most people were in AOL, we had to upload both ways in the snow, and we liked it that way…
You kids today with your tikky Tok and your faces-book don't understand
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Land_Strider@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hey, speak for yourself. Some of us did get increasing fun with every pixel loaded, as the same image kept its novelty for like 5 minutes.
RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Titty pics just hit different when they’re rendered in 16 colors on Windows 3.1.
Not 16-bit color, just 16 colors.
sparkle@lemm.ee 2 months ago
face fetish
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Didn’t be a dipshit. You can’t understand their point?
They’re not talking about technology. They’re talking about creative quality of content.
OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He’s making a hyperbolic joke.
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I know, and I wasn’t taking the statements literally. But the point of the hyperbole was quite clear. Didn’t be a dipshit yourself.
OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are you okay? You seem a little confused, and it’s coming our in your comments
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I remember trying to pirate Doom at some point in the 90s over a 56k modem. It was a 10mb download. I got shouted at by my parents for tying up the phone line the whole evening but I persisted. Turns out it was just the demo for Doom.
Good times.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I downloaded dude where’s my car over 56k. I’d connect it at the start of the day before leaving for school and then pause the download when I got home so I could play StarCraft online. Took a week to get it, and then it wouldn’t play.
Figuring the file just got corrupted during the download, I wrote a program that would break the file up into segments of n bytes and generate a checksum for each segment into another file, then you could take that file and run it against another copy of the original file and find any segments that were different and generate a patch file.
Surprisingly, the guy hosting the file on IRC was willing to run the executable a random user on IRC asked him to (probably noticed me taking that week to download the movie lol), but then his copy and mine were exact matches. Then, he taught me about codecs and I was watching that shitty quality 500MB movie just a little while later.
bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Crazy that checksums were the first stop before codecs.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
First movie I ever pirated was Spider Man 1 (the Tobey McGuire one). Over dial up. Similar situation, it took days to finish with intermittent downloading. The quality was so shitty it was basically unwatchable.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
800x600 was a respectable screen resolution in those days and people with decent computers ran at 1024x768, which is more vertical pixels than 720p, though 4:3 ratio. That’s not something I’m nostalgic about lol. Winamp could only fit like 30 songs on the screen even if you expanded your playlist to the bottom of the screen (and I have a feeling I might be overestimating it here).
I think the second movie I downloaded was captured by a camcorder in the theatre, including people blocking the view as they walked to and from their seats. Scary Movie iirc.