• @SchmidtGenetics
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    468 months ago

    “You’re gonna finish loading the image, right?”

  • IninewCrow
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    278 months ago

    I’ve been loading this for an hour and I think it just drew another line of data. I’ll keep it on for another 12 hours to see how much I can get.

    I’m so excited

    • qprimed
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      168 months ago

      “mom, no! don’t pick up the phone!”

      • IninewCrow
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        48 months ago

        Now I have to restart the download again … lol … it was hair pulling fun when this happened to a 50MB update download that took 8 hours to complete, only to get messed up when someone decided to make a phone call at 3am.

      • IninewCrow
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        38 months ago

        I put a piece of paper up to the screen to line up to the last line of the image and I think it just moved

  • @[email protected]
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    258 months ago

    Kids these days will never appreciate the struggles our generation had rubbing one out to dial up porn.

    • @[email protected]
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      108 months ago

      Watching an image load line by line or watching an image change from a blurred pixel art to higher res as more pixels loaded…

      Videos? Not a thing. Realplayer was simply awful bloatware even if it was revolutionary for its time.

  • @ieightpi
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    188 months ago

    I hate to admit it but for a few seconds I was wondering why the meme wouldn’t load

    • @Rolando
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      18 months ago

      I just saw this meme for the third time, and finally got it

  • teft
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    8 months ago

    Wrong icon for dial up internet explorer.

    You’ll want one of the upper row icons for dial up internet explorer.

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        8 months ago

        While true that you can use dial up internet even on modern browsers, it fell out of use pretty much everywhere by the mid 2000s. DSL and cable became pretty ubiquitous.

        • @Nouveau_Burnswick
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          28 months ago

          I can see it could feel that way in some areas. I’m a Canadian, so we didn’t even start to address the digital divide until 2019.

          I thought high speed was ubiquitous in the late 00’s, then I moved to a province when it was very limited.

          1/3 of the world still has no fixed internet access, let alone broadband access

      • @Kethal
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        28 months ago

        This is a confused soul. One of those icons isn’t even Explorer.

        • teft
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          38 months ago

          They are all internet explorer or variants of it. The internet was what the icon was labeled for the first few versions. The last icon is for edge i believe.

    • @[email protected]
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      28 months ago

      I remember when IE 4 switched to the e icon. I thought it was so much cooler looking with the blue gradients.

  • @dadGPT
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    158 months ago

    this meme will load eventually right? … right?

  • @Zachariah
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    148 months ago

    Why isn’t it loading? All I can see is:

  • @PunnyName
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    118 months ago

    Good fucking dammit

  • @Cold_Brew_Enema
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    78 months ago

    Most Lemmy users are not old enough to understand this

  • @devfuuu
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    68 months ago

    You had me in the first part.

    • IninewCrow
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      8 months ago

      ?? that’s weird … I kept trying to link to the image to make it appear in the comments and it doesn’t work ??

      Usually, I just download the image I generated on Imgflip … then reupload it to Lemmy … linking to images, I’m reminded is a pain because you never who allows what to be linked and in what way so you never know how it will appear … but downloading the image and then reuploading to Lemmy usually works.