I took a lot of photos with a lot of people during the late 90’s. I wonder if those backup CDs in storage are still good.
If you were a real pervert like me you needed zip disks
I didn’t even know of the existence of those! Thanks for the new knowledge, I guess they never really took off much?
They were moderately popular around the turn of the century. They held 100-250MB but were pretty fragile. There were others called Jaz disks that held 1GB.
But once you could burn a CD or use a thumb drive they weren’t worth the risk of data loss.
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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.
Zip disks were closer to floppies. Magnetic disks and tape are fundamentally different (random access, especially), although the physics behind the R/W operation is the same.
were also primarily tape drives.
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no. zip disks were a shitty removable format that ran off parallel (slowly) or scsi (paying more), or eventually atapi/ide and usb iirc.
iomega also made tape drives, but zip disks weren’t it.
I wonder if it only took until the 1920s for people to say “back in the 1800s” in order to anger the old people
Nah, it usually was tapes and magazines.
used to burn snes roms on these
Hmmm sweet 16 colors 320x200 jpg.
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 in 1999, 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)?
Alternatively, “porn” could also mean lewd text, which load faster than one can read even on slowest modems, and a floppy can hold hundreds of pages printed on a dot matrix printer. Over two thousands with compression.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Animation_System_for_Professionals https://www.fileformat.info/format/grasp/egff.htm in the early 90s
you could find porn on BBSs on this format… a lot of it was 2 bit black and white dither stuff but animated… better than the the bra section in the jcpenny catalog lol.
Uuuh I don’t think that in the 1900’s they had magnetic diskettes. :)
The late 1900s did. Closer to mid 1900s was reel to reel tape. Before that, smoke signals and carrier pigeon.
