• silas@programming.dev
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    2 years ago

    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.

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      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.

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    I actually thought this image was large and was taking the to load, lol

    • wolfpack86
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      2 years ago

      It didn’t even register as s problem for me, either 😂

  • Botree
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    2 years ago

    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.

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    Seems just a tad faster than I remember. Also I always got to just before the good bits and then that always happened.

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    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.

  • FauxPseudo
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    2 years ago

    It’s easy to tell that you had a 56k connection instead of a 33k one.

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        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.

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        Dear sir, can I interest you in a blazingly fast modem that is 50% faster than this at 14.4K?

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          You joke, but a 14.4 modem was a game changer at the time. It felt like blazing speed compared to 9600.

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            When I upgraded from 2400 baud to 9600 it felt like I had somehow got my hands on tech from the future.

  • Aceticon
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    2 years ago

    Having clearly had my teenage years at around the same time as the OP, I can confirm this is a very realistic simulation.

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      Except for the inevitable horror you’d get when the image did finish loading, but it turned out to be a bait 'n switch.

  • Misconduct
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    When you spent three days downloading a movie and it was some other stupid movie. The absolute betrayal 😔

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      3:10 not enough being yelled at because someone wanted to use the phone