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Mom get off the phone!

8 days ago by MutantTailThing to c/comicstrips

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Catoblepas 115 points 8 days ago

Oh, the internet was very different back then. It used to come in through the phone, but now it comes in through the phone.

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ReptilianCleric 43 points 8 days ago

Now the phone comes in through the internet.

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multifariace 23 points 8 days ago

Woah...

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Pat_Riot 9 points 8 days ago

Now it comes in on the phone.

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xia 34 points 8 days ago

"Bwong Bwong"? You must've had one of those fancy 56kbps modems!

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GreenKnight23 2 points 7 days ago

13300 baud clan representing

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chiliedogg 2 points 7 days ago

I remeber 9600 and 14.4k, and 28.8k.

I don't remember 13.3.

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GreenKnight23 1 point 7 days ago

it was similar to this card.

1000004673

it should have been an ISA card too. I don't even think my PC had PCI at the time, at least not until the late 90s.

might even still have the card in a box somewhere.

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slazer2au 30 points 8 days ago

Slow. Getting one line of an image at a time....

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palordrolap 28 points 8 days ago

If you think he's old, I heard the broken image icon as a Q*Bert noise.

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BillibusMaximus 14 points 8 days ago

@!#?@!

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CapuccinoCoretto 27 points 8 days ago

Porn downloading line by line... you would invest 30 minutes just to decide you cancel because you're not into her eyebrows.

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BurgerBaron 11 points 8 days ago

The first time I streamed a porn video and it sounded like a telephone underwater and the soapy tiddies were four pixels, good times.

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GamingChairModel 6 points 8 days ago

Hey some websites took the effort to progressively encode the images so that they'd slowly blur into place. Of course, you'd never fully know whether an image was worth loading until the very end.

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VieuxQueb 5 points 8 days ago

In glorious 256 colors @ 800x600

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14th_cylon 5 points 7 days ago

That's what progressive jpeg was for

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PhoenixDog 1 point 7 days ago

Nearly every video and picture format was created or promoted to support porn.

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tal 15 points 8 days ago

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ComfortableRaspberry 2 points 7 days ago

Let me sing you the song of my people :D

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UnLocoPoco 8 points 7 days ago

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dalekcaan 6 points 8 days ago

Windows 98 error sound

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yermaw 2 points 7 days ago

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PotatoesFall 1 point 7 days ago

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tough_cookies 1 point 7 days ago

"We enjoyed getting email. Crazy, right?"

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