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Old GIFs from the earlier days of the Internet
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CarpeDeezNutz
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155 years before the first gifs in 1987, a Belgian physicist Joseph Plateau created these repeating images depicting motion through spinning discs.
You learn stuff on gaf. That's pretty cool.
CraigerGamer
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Though I can't seem to find the GIF she came from.
Did it have stick figures?
The Albatross
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Seeing a bunch of recent gifs and then re-reading the thread title "earlier days of the internet" and I'm just like... c'mon man I'm old.
CrocMother
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Andrefpvs
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CadetMahoney
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never saw this one b4.
Must be subversive advetising for lack of parental controls?
Unhandled Exception
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I remember.
MudoSkills
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This. I'm not sure if it's the original, but it's definitely similar:
CrocMother
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RoadHazard
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Yeah, I was gonna say that a lot of these are comparatively recent. Especially the ones that are full little video clips, sure as hell didn't have those in the early days. Early GIFs were short with very low framerate and of terrible quality.
That's a bit more like it.
I think back to many popular ytmnds, but even that wasn't really *early* internet.
etc.
Lohan gif always make me cry.
The hamster dance and Spiderman GIFs immediately made the songs pop into my head ("A Little Less Conversation" for Spiderman).
I have a surreal memory of watching a college baseball game live once, and hearing hamster dance start playing over the loudspeakers, just echoing over the campus, during a break between innings.
I have a surreal memory of watching a college baseball game live once, and hearing hamster dance start playing over the loudspeakers, just echoing over the campus, during a break between innings.
didnt know tumblr gifs existed back then
UncleSporky
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While both of these are kinda sorta old by today's standards, they're really not something you would've seen much of in the earlier days.
The cop one is 3.6 megs and the penguin one is a more manageable 420k, but either would be crazy to see on dialup speeds.
The fastest common modems were 56 kilobits per second, which is 7 kilobytes per second. The penguin would've taken a whole minute to download and the cop would've taken 8.7 minutes.
And IIRC most modems didn't even necessarily work at full speed anyway, depending on the phone lines and your provider.
water_wendi
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Wow the memories...
Indeed,
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Deleted member 57681
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I remember seeing her on SNL. Such a shame.
ShadowKingpin
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Most of the stuff I have is past 2000.
Oh my god. Glorious.
That reminds me:
Now we getting somewhere.
http://www.homerswebpage.com/
Look at all those gifs.
Look at all those gifs.
If it's from the 21st century, it's not from the early days of the internet.
1990's is ancient Greece/Rome. 2000-2005 is the dark ages. Thinking about that period just evokes nightmarish memories of cheap Newgrounds flash animations and people unironically enjoying Nu Metal.
Andrefpvs
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If it's from the 21st century, it's not from the early days of the internet.
I actually wrote "earlier" instead of "early" to avoid this kind of pedantic response, but I guess I could have worded it better
double jump
you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
So glad the mods disabled animated avatars.
gutter_trash
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NEDMI think back to many popular ytmnds, but even that wasn't really *early* internet.
etc.
I remember seeing her on SNL. Such a shame.
Damn ...
Was this pre or post-surgery(ies) ?
Duane Cunningham
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I remember at the time thinking those guys would grow up soon and would just be marked for life from that video. But I bet nobody remembers it.
EDIT: Ah, that didn't take long to find. Evidently they're in college now and doing just fine...
PhantomHound
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Stickdeath.com... was that a thing or was i just weird?
Most of the ones I remember were spinning text, flames, and email gifs. I remember seeing some early porn ones back in 1995 or so.
I didn't think they were anything funny until ytmnd became popular in 05 or 06. That may have been flash animation though. Don't recall. Newgrounds though. Homestar. I miss the old net.
I didn't think they were anything funny until ytmnd became popular in 05 or 06. That may have been flash animation though. Don't recall. Newgrounds though. Homestar. I miss the old net.
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