Robert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem] to

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The closest thing kids today will get to what 56k dial up was like is loading a huge picture on Hexbear with shitty wifi and watching it inch down the screen

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The closest thing kids today will get to what 56k dial up was like is loading a huge picture on Hexbear with shitty wifi and watching it inch down the screen

Robert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem] to

chat • 2 days ago

Also when the emoji menu takes 2 minutes to load

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BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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2 days 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!).

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