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RedtheGamer100 t1_j6b1227 wrote
bBS?
merlinsbeers t1_j6b1pyu wrote
Bulletin
Board
System
Think Reddit, but downloading a picture took 45 minutes.
djfraggle t1_j6bshrk wrote
There were no actual pictures in the 80s other than ASCII art and maybe rasters. What you're talking about sounds more like Usenet in the 90s. I must've already been off of BBSs at this point and getting free AOL for a month, then cancelling.
genital_furbies t1_j6cnqlr wrote
I remember a classmate brought ASCII art of nude women that were printed on his dads dot matrix printer on the green and white striped paper to school he got off a bbs back in the day.
merlinsbeers t1_j6bzixu wrote
WikiSummarizerBot t1_j6bzk4f wrote
>The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; GHIF or JIF , see pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on 15 June 1987. It is in widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability between applications and operating systems. The format supports up to 8 bits per pixel for each image, allowing a single image to reference its own palette of up to 256 different colors chosen from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of up to 256 colors for each frame.
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Gnurx OP t1_j6hxhwf wrote
Good bot.
djfraggle t1_j6cb2nf wrote
Well I guess they weren't available on my C64 then :)
kabekew t1_j6fwsov wrote
Yes, there were pictures! All kinds of paint programs and image formats. My handheld photo scanner saved in GIF format (dithered) but I also remember TIFF, Targa (TGA) formats, and Paintbrush (PCX) formats that could store digitized photo images.
RedtheGamer100 t1_j6b2is8 wrote
Dang
djfraggle t1_j6brtj1 wrote
Somewhat of a precursor to the internet. People would set them up on their computers and you could call them on your modem. Phreakers knew how to manipulate the phone system to bypass toll charges, so they'd call all around the country for free.
Fearchar t1_j6ebv4s wrote
Many are still around!
happydaddydoody t1_j6fskaq wrote
Miss my bro using the word SysOp
wnfakind t1_j6boz3w wrote
Holy hell, it’s been awhile since I’ve heard that. Some weird shit went down these days
merlinsbeers t1_j6b1jtn wrote
I tried it and it says Google shut down in 2016.
Anarchistcowboy420 t1_j6b5atb wrote
The Google API shut down in 2016 this webpage can't pull real web results anymore
merlinsbeers t1_j6bazuf wrote
Google is evil. They've broken rule 1.
Anarchistcowboy420 t1_j6c36in wrote
Can't break the rules if you change the rules.
merlinsbeers t1_j6c3vdz wrote
"Don't be Elvis."
mroboto2016 t1_j6bhr1e wrote
I think I've got a 300 baud modem in a box with my Atari 800 XLs.
Dang, now I've got to get a ladder to get them off the loft.
I've still got a sealed AOL box.
Buck_Thorn t1_j6as9p6 wrote
Now show what it would have looked like without ansi.sys loaded.
Sil369 t1_j6bces0 wrote
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Buck_Thorn t1_j6asmco wrote
---> CONNECTING TO HOST en.wikipedia.org...
--- ABORT - I know you don't want to be redirected to wikipedia.org ---
ROF,L!
chris_4 t1_j6e2aju wrote
look at fancy pants with a color monitor. I don't think I saw a color monitor until 88 or 89. Before then it was monochrome green
mac-not-a-bot t1_j6kh714 wrote
Or amber. Or white. But always monochrome. VGA monochrome white was my fav all the way into the 2000’s. ‘Cause who really needs color anyway?
Klin24 t1_j6c3rlc wrote
Telemate ftw
evildicey t1_j6doasn wrote
You mean ceefax?
_AlreadyTaken_ t1_j6e12qe wrote
Then you google ascii porn
herendzer t1_j6et6zu wrote
It’s beautiful
NVLVS t1_j6euc9f wrote
I remember elgoog just showing everything backwards back in the day! I used to use it in school all the time.
hessianerd t1_j6f2uzp wrote
There is always lynx:
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https://www.interserver.net/tips/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lynx-1024x524.png
burgermachine74 t1_j6ffejp wrote
They forgot to tilt the E. THEY FORGOT TO TILT THE E!!
n21lv t1_j6fg7j2 wrote
Now make it look like a Teletext page
P.S. My Google Keyboard's dictionary seemingly knows the word 'Teletext', which is fascinating
Gnurx OP t1_j6hxe6m wrote
srh99 t1_j6g4awd wrote
Feeling lucky used to work 80 percent of the time. Now the first 2 pages are crap ads from companies that paid google for placement. How it sucks when google has such a monopoly.
SuperusApp t1_j6gkqh6 wrote
darkmode yeah!!!
Catinthemirror t1_j6bixvs wrote
Google in the 1980s looked like AltaVista
djfraggle t1_j6ar6gj wrote
This makes me miss BBSs. Good times.