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I lovingly crafted this 100% realistic early 90s internet simulator so the young folks can get a feel for how I spent my teens.

3 years ago by realitista to c/genx

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silas 110 points 3 years ago

I'm designing a Lemmy client and spent a good 3 extra minutes trying to figure out why this was taking so long to load. Thanks.

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path: 0 1528036, hotness: undefined, score: 110, children: 5
Enasni 40 points 3 years ago

Programmers are a truly interesting bunch. Y’all can be absolute geniuses capable of some amazing, talented shit then do something as simple as ignoring a post title for 3 entire minutes lmao.

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sciawp 16 points 3 years ago

Sometimes your curiousity is stronger than your logic, but that’s not a bad thing!

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Mutelogic 7 points 3 years ago

I read this in Gandalf's voice.

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damnYouSun 6 points 3 years ago

Why isn't this code compiling?

After 10 mins of investigation

*Changes JSON.stingify to JSON.stringify

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Crackhappy 1 point 3 years ago

Stingify is the new WASP extension.

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roon 29 points 3 years ago

I actually thought this image was large and was taking the to load, lol

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wolfpack86 8 points 3 years ago

It didn't even register as s problem for me, either 😂

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ddigger 2 points 3 years ago

I promptly refreshed my screen, while thinking wtf, 90's again.

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WarmSoda 24 points 3 years ago

Brings back memories.
Don't forget to clear todays history.

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GaroshTheSpaceShip 18 points 3 years ago

LOL I'm triggered, we'll played

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Botree 17 points 3 years ago

Oh dear. This just unlocked some ancient memories. Never thought I'd ever be reminded of a half loaded image of Cindy Crawford ever again.

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ironchico 16 points 3 years ago

Seems just a tad faster than I remember. Also I always got to just before the good bits and then that always happened.

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renrenPDX 1 point 3 years ago

It depends on size and quality.

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MisterChief 15 points 3 years ago

I just got flashbacks. To add on to this those late 90s porn sites that when they finally did load had the little stars on the tits and groin and were like $20/mo.

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FauxPseudo 15 points 3 years ago

It's easy to tell that you had a 56k connection instead of a 33k one.

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TheGreenGolem 1 point 3 years ago

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Serpardum 1 point 3 years ago

I had a freaking 300 baud modem. Was happy when I got a 1,200 baud because I could read that fast.

Download a 1 meg file for a day then have someone pickup the phone at 98% complete. Argh!

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ODuffer 14 points 3 years ago

NSFW

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FlyingSquid 3 points 3 years ago

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Icarus 2 points 3 years ago

this is a masterpiece

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NovaPrime 14 points 3 years ago

Learning how to load bottom up was a game changer

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kemsat 10 points 3 years ago

This better not be real…

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netburnr 17 points 3 years ago

Ita not.

You either had top to bottom line by line or you had a square that then turned 8 squares then 16 then a blurry titty, 20 minutes late mom picked up the phone to call her sister and you were back to national geographic magazines.

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PaulDevonUK 13 points 3 years ago

Woo hoo, 9600 baud modem downloading.

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burntbutterbiscuits 19 points 3 years ago

9600 bps? Check out Mr Moneypants down around his ankles over here.

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curiouscuriosity 3 points 3 years ago

Dear sir, can I interest you in a blazingly fast modem that is 50% faster than this at 14.4K?

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FlyingSquid 1 point 3 years ago

You joke, but a 14.4 modem was a game changer at the time. It felt like blazing speed compared to 9600.

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varjen 2 points 3 years ago

When I upgraded from 2400 baud to 9600 it felt like I had somehow got my hands on tech from the future.

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Shaggadellic 13 points 3 years ago

You just triggered my 90s porn PTSD!

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flambonkscious 1 point 3 years ago

I concur.

It's damn funny, but somehow still too soon

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Aceticon 13 points 3 years ago

Having clearly had my teenage years at around the same time as the OP, I can confirm this is a very realistic simulation.

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Etterra 12 points 3 years ago

Except for the inevitable horror you'd get when the image did finish loading, but it turned out to be a bait 'n switch.

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Misconduct 11 points 3 years ago

When you spent three days downloading a movie and it was some other stupid movie. The absolute betrayal 😔

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Kid4today 11 points 3 years ago

It’s way too fast.

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AlataOrange 2 points 3 years ago

3:10 not enough being yelled at because someone wanted to use the phone

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GeekFTW 10 points 3 years ago

Goddamned accurate lol

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GONADS125 10 points 3 years ago

A little too fast for dial-up, bit otherwise extremely accurate.

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ArgentRaven 9 points 3 years ago

Yeah man, I just got this 56k dial up. It's so awesome. It's limited to 51k, but after they update the regulation it'll be blazin fast!

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freamon 8 points 3 years ago

We had less to work with in those days, but we made do dammit!

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Agent641 11 points 3 years ago

These kids will never know the struggle of bashing one out to an ascii boob

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FlyingSquid 6 points 3 years ago

I had a scam involving that- I would download porn pics from the internet at campus computer labs (I was still in high school, but it was hard to stop anyone who wanted to from using the labs, especially at 2 am) and then upload them to BBSes and I'd get a huge ratio and be able to download a shit ton of games. So I got spank material and was able to play a bunch of games for free.

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madcaesar 7 points 3 years ago

Alright OP I enough fucking around let's see the picture!

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ConfuzedAZ 6 points 3 years ago

This is so accurate I can hear the handshake.

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ColdWater 6 points 3 years ago

I thought my internet is slow. This is my first comment on Lemmy.world

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FlyingSquid 1 point 3 years ago

Welcome!

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InFerNo 6 points 3 years ago

If you want the real deal, use oldweb.today. you can even choose the browser from yonder days.

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Chickenstalker 5 points 3 years ago

Meh. In the 90s, I bought bootleg JAV CDs from CD stalls under the tree next to the 7-11. Downloading porn was only viable in the 2000s.

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Fpsfrank85 5 points 3 years ago

Gold Jerry! Gold!

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Schooner 3 points 3 years ago

Okay it took me a few cycles before I realised it's a gif ngl

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Zathras 2 points 3 years ago

I'm a bit slow. It took me multiple attempts on different lemmy apps to understand. Well played 🙃

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CloudMunch 2 points 3 years ago

TAKE YOUR UPVOTE AND GO!

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mnrockclimber 2 points 3 years ago

Which file format was it where you’d get the whole box and it would sharpen as the download continued? Would start off super blurry but at least you weren’t waiting for the line by line paint-in.

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basskitten 2 points 3 years ago

jpeg has a progressive mode, could be that.

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azdood85 2 points 3 years ago

Is that the meme of Dawson crying?

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Brazzburry 1 point 3 years ago

Man I forgot about the "fuck! reload!" Well done.

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elscallr 1 point 3 years ago

triggered

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axellenium 1 point 3 years ago

Damn, that brought memories 🫣

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Historical_General 0 points 3 years ago

expletives

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Buelldozer 0 points 3 years ago

Some real truth right there.

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YellowtoOrange -3 points 3 years ago

Touche.

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