Also when the emoji menu takes 2 minutes to load

  • someone [comrade/them, they/them]
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    1 month ago

    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.

    • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      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.

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      1 month ago

      I for one am thankful that zoomers are spared the horrors of Windows 3x

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      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!).

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      1 month ago

      Zoomers will never know how weird physical playboy magazines smelled