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    Old Head (lemmy.world)
    submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    Kid told me that he just watched "some crazy old movie" about how a kid hacked into NORAD.

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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    That's about the speed you can read text...it's why pre-internet sites like BBSes weren't all flashy, you had to keep it loadable. Actual downloads you would plan overnight and hope you didn't lose connection. The first big breakthrough was resumable downloading where you left off. Huge.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    I have memories of watching pictures back then being transfered by modem. It was one pixel row at a time, being rendered at approximately reading speed. So as a teenager being into hot celebrity girls, I got to watch the image being unveiled during about 3 minutes of watching those pixels appear left to right, one pixel row at a time.

    It was cool :)

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

    pamela_anderson_beach.jpg

    Didn't even last until it had fully loaded.