I lovingly crafted this 100% realistic early 90s internet simulator so the young folks can get a feel for how I spent my teens.
I lovingly crafted this 100% realistic early 90s internet simulator so the young folks can get a feel for how I spent my teens.
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.
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.
I actually thought this image was large and was taking the to load, lol
It didn't even register as s problem for me, either 😂
I promptly refreshed my screen, while thinking wtf, 90's again.
Brings back memories.
Don't forget to clear todays history.LOL I'm triggered, we'll played
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.
Seems just a tad faster than I remember. Also I always got to just before the good bits and then that always happened.
It depends on size and quality.
It's easy to tell that you had a 56k connection instead of a 33k one.
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!
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.
NSFW
this is a masterpiece
Learning how to load bottom up was a game changer
This better not be real…
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.
You just triggered my 90s porn PTSD!
I concur.
It's damn funny, but somehow still too soon
Having clearly had my teenage years at around the same time as the OP, I can confirm this is a very realistic simulation.
Except for the inevitable horror you'd get when the image did finish loading, but it turned out to be a bait 'n switch.
It’s way too fast.
3:10 not enough being yelled at because someone wanted to use the phone
When you spent three days downloading a movie and it was some other stupid movie. The absolute betrayal 😔
A little too fast for dial-up, bit otherwise extremely accurate.
Goddamned accurate lol
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!
We had less to work with in those days, but we made do dammit!
These kids will never know the struggle of bashing one out to an ascii boob
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.
Alright OP I enough fucking around let's see the picture!
If you want the real deal, use oldweb.today. you can even choose the browser from yonder days.
This is so accurate I can hear the handshake.
I thought my internet is slow. This is my first comment on Lemmy.world
Welcome!
Gold Jerry! Gold!
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.
Okay it took me a few cycles before I realised it's a gif ngl
TAKE YOUR UPVOTE AND GO!
Is that the meme of Dawson crying?
I'm a bit slow. It took me multiple attempts on different lemmy apps to understand. Well played 🙃
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.
jpeg has a progressive mode, could be that.
Damn, that brought memories 🫣
triggered
Man I forgot about the "fuck! reload!" Well done.
Some real truth right there.
expletives
Touche.