Your parents in 640x480 glory.
2026-04-21 15:01 UTC
Replies (17)
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@Iunnrais@piefed.social 2026-04-22 01:29
Assuming that as an older millennial, I’m the parent you’re talking about, no. Porn almost never went on those. VHS and paper magazines mostly. Computer porn would be downloaded to a convoluted folder depth with misleading names on your hard drive, and would never be placed on removable media unless you had a CD burner, which was rare as fuck (but they did exist). Seriously though, people used to make genuine mazes out of nested folders. If you were in the era of dial up BBS systems, you still were far more likely to use a hard drive than a floppy. The reason floppies weren’t used is that even at low resolution with still images, not much would fit on the things, super inconvenient. Shareware, sure. Porn? Not likely.
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@AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-21 23:40
Even using just 8bit color depth you’d only be able to store a single 424x424 pixel image (uncompressed) on a “high density” 1.4MB floppy. That’s absolutely garbage, but makes it all the more impressive that an upgrade from windows 95 to the first version of windows XP only took two floppy disks.
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@JakoJakoJako13@piefed.social 2026-04-21 16:50
 Nah these were still king of the pron. Blanks in a shoebox under a bed. Some wild jungle shit on them that made you understand why you are a mixed baby. It wasn't your parents on the tape. It's just what daddy liked.
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@4am@lemmy.zip 2026-04-21 16:21
Those do not look like VHS cassettes
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@Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2026-04-21 15:17
If you were a real pervert like me you needed zip disks
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@toxicbubble@lemmy.world 2026-04-21 16:15
used to burn snes roms on these
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@DmMacniel@feddit.org 2026-04-21 15:48
Uuuh I don't think that in the 1900's they had magnetic diskettes. :)
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@Carmakazi@piefed.social 2026-04-21 15:26
Floppies are particularly vulnerable to decay from my understanding. I found a box of 8-12 disks a few years ago and exactly none of them were readable. That's probably bad luck but...
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@Leather@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 05:52
Millennial lies! Porn in the 90’s, that was not in print, was stored on tape. By the mid 90:s the most tech savvy of us saved porn on a “zip disk” which were also primarily tape drives.
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@nonentity@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-22 07:43
Progressive JPEGs.
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@ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2026-04-22 08:04
It was feasible to download online images or WMV, AVI or RealPlayer videos to floppies. But it would take 8 minutes to download 1.44 MB over a mid-range 28k modem, and it could hold about 50 640x480 JPEGs or two minutes of 240p video. Or did you mean “this was the internet back then” as in sneakernet or another non-computer alternative (not actually a connection between computers but accomplishing the same goal)?
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@peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-22 08:05
No, that was my porn collection. And yes i lost a lot of it.
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@cley_faye@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 08:37
Hmmm sweet 16 colors 320x200 jpg.
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@chunes@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 08:55
I wonder if it only took until the 1920s for people to say “back in the 1800s” in order to anger the old people
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@ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2026-04-22 09:11
Nah, it usually was tapes and magazines.
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@jobbies@lemmy.zip 2026-04-22 09:34
Oh sure yeah in 1906 people had porno jpegs on floppies, only problem was they didn’t have the technology to access them 😅
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@Wolf314159@startrek.website 2026-04-22 09:54
The 1900s would still only be like 1909 at the latest. You've got too much precision and called out the wrong decade. This floppy form factor was invented in 1981, peaked in popularity and was replaced by CDs by 2000. Spanning 2 decades in the late twentieth (20th) century, not the late 1900s. See the difference in the number of digits? That difference in the number of stated digits is significant.