Slow. Getting one line of an image at a time....

If you think he's old, I heard the broken image icon as a Q*Bert noise.

Oh, the internet was very different back then. It used to come in through the phone, but now it comes in through the phone.

@!#?@!

Woah...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xalTFH5ht-k

Dial Up Modem Sounds, from 300 Bps to 56K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDhyayQ_Rk0

Dialup Modem Handshake | Sound Breakdown & Explained [4K @ 60fps]

Porn downloading line by line... you would invest 30 minutes just to decide you cancel because you're not into her eyebrows.

Now it comes in on the phone.

Windows 98 error sound

Now the phone comes in through the internet.

The first time I streamed a porn video and it sounded like a telephone underwater and the soapy tiddies were four pixels, good times.

Hey some websites took the effort to progressively encode the images so that they'd slowly blur into place. Of course, you'd never fully know whether an image was worth loading until the very end.

"Bwong Bwong"? You must've had one of those fancy 56kbps modems!

In glorious 256 colors @ 800x600

Let me sing you the song of my people :D

That's what progressive jpeg was for

13300 baud clan representing

I remeber 9600 and 14.4k, and 28.8k.

I don't remember 13.3.

https://youtu.be/AgqEIp2YmtE?is=uJ8W8CjcOYYJY73O

Was a solid job for a few years

"We enjoyed getting email. Crazy, right?"

it was similar to this card.

it should have been an ISA card too. I don't even think my PC had PCI at the time, at least not until the late 90s.

might even still have the card in a box somewhere.

Nearly every video and picture format was created or promoted to support porn.