RoabeArt [he/him]
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Cake day: October 13th, 2020
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23·11 months agoThat being said I don’t have memories of everything being snappy 20 years ago - there were messy scripts and gigantic images that made Geocities and Angelfire sites near unusable back then as well.
Pages with dozens of embedded JPEG files that are larger than your monitor’s resolution and are compressed at highest quality. Easily a quarter to half of a megabyte each and take several minutes to load on dialup, then the webserver times out the connection because you’re taking too long to download all these giant files at once.
I don’t miss those days. Not to say things are better now, but they necessarily weren’t back then either.
Oh, and RealPlayer. Fuck RealPlayer.
Him at 59 looks like me at 33. 😞
The small business tyrants in my city like to threaten hiring freezes or say they will stop giving raises any time it looks like even the most milquetoast lib Democrat is ahead in the polls during election season.
Instead of telling them off for this retaliatory sore loser dogshit behavior, people applaud them for sticking it to the lefties or whatever.