The closest thing kids today will get to what 56k dial up was like is loading a huge picture on Hexbear with shitty wifi and watching it inch down the screen
The closest thing kids today will get to what 56k dial up was like is loading a huge picture on Hexbear with shitty wifi and watching it inch down the screen
Also when the emoji menu takes 2 minutes to load
Browsing hexbear on mobile and have to stop because someone called
Zoomers will never know the annoyance of spending several minutes downloading a playboy photo only to find it won't display because the first version of Mosaic didn't do JPEGs, leading to a futile quest to find some free software to view JPEGs that worked on Windows 3.1.
Zoomers will never know about having to go to the library to get another 30 day AOL trial CD so you never have to actually pay for dial up.
I for one am thankful that zoomers are spared the horrors of Windows 3x
There was a popular image viewer at the time, I was thinking it was IrfanView, but apparently that didn’t exist until 1996 (and still gets updated!).
Zoomers will never know how weird physical playboy magazines smelled
Waiting for a Hexbear picture to load
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Bring back image interlacing
Watch the image slowly get less and less blurry instead :3
while progressive jpegs are generally preferred, they do have an issue where towards the end it’s not clear if the image is blurry or if it hasn’t fully loaded yet (more benefits, though)
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Jan, the pictures of the kids at the beach are wonderful, it only took me 35 minutes to download!
I can't wait to surf the web and browse the information superhighway so I can learn how to improve my golf swing!
Youngins will never know what its like to hear the connection dial up tone that sounded like screams of a tortured AI consciousness begging for the release of death. Good times
AOL/Prodigy connection sounds were an early version of:
So thats what they meant. Perhaps oil barrons are accelerating humanity's extinction to spare us a worse fate
Anyways I hope you liked the survey results
It’s what makes this place great.
I was literally just thinking this while trying to click on that cool church post
That's what I was doing too.
decentralized platforms take me back, man. back to having to hope your server admin is a cool dude, and waiting patiently for your photos to load.
that's too fast. closest thing is opening the emojis on hexbear
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Reminded me of this lol
You can get the same dial up experience with an old enough phone.