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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by kingcharles on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:22PM (#29354826)
God, this would happen all the time in the mid-90s. You joke about a backhoe in Iowa, but I'm pretty certain it was a backhoe in Iowa one time. Then the whole of the UK's traffic to the USA West Coast would be routed through an ISDN connection in Korea for three days. Your goat porn downloads from Usenet would drop from their high of 0.5Kb/sec and you'd be left with your dick in your hand. Or something.
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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by h2odragon on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:42PM (#29355009)
Kids today will never know how we suffered in the Before Times
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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by FredPret on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:35PM (#29356303)
boobs.jpg loading one line at a time and then greying out completely before reaching the bottom
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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by tacocataco on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:50PM (#29356831)
Good thing I'm into legs... They loaded first.
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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by p_l on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @08:12AM (#29391705)
only if it was BMP
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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by dkubb on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:05PM (#29356547)
This is where you'd choose the .gif version hoping it was interlaced.
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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by xwolfi on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:50PM (#29355083)
Ofc they will, people are recording the history of porn downlo... err the internet just as diligently as Napoleon conquests !
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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by ezconnect on Saturday November 27, 2021 @07:53AM (#29359787)
They will never experience buying bootleg disk for gif porn.

edit: disk is for diskette

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Re:The internet is held together with spit and baling wire by pepoluan on Saturday November 27, 2021 @05:05AM (#29359021)
This is why I always pre-download pr0n well-ahead of jack0ff time.

Call it BBP Protocol... "Blue Ball Prevention"

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