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[–] SchmidtGenetics 46 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"mom, no! don't pick up the phone!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 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.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 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] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 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.

[–] TheGiantKorean 22 points 11 months ago

Poor IE. Can't even rest in piece.

[–] ieightpi 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Rolando 1 points 11 months ago

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

[–] teft 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Wrong icon for dial up internet explorer.

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

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You can use dial up with any of those explorers....

[–] teft 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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 2 points 11 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 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] teft 3 points 11 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] 4 points 11 months ago

Here is the meme with the correct icon

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I don’t know about you, but I had the Netscape Navigator icon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

So the last icon implies "it flushes you through the web, if you want or not"?

[–] dadGPT 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

this meme will load eventually right? ...... right?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

mom picks up the phone

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 5 points 11 months ago

Yeah, just give it time.

[–] Zachariah 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Resol 4 points 11 months ago

Really? This is what I see:

[–] PunnyName 11 points 11 months ago

Good fucking dammit

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago
[–] Cold_Brew_Enema 7 points 11 months ago

Most Lemmy users are not old enough to understand this

[–] devfuuu 6 points 11 months ago

You had me in the first part.

[–] TehBamski 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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.

[–] MataVatnik 4 points 11 months ago
[–] PriorityMotif 4 points 11 months ago

"rip dial up users"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Is progressive image loading obsolete now?