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A bit of context: Back in 1995 if you wanted to see a photo, you had to go to a 'bulletin board' called Usenet. There, jpgs were stored in multi-part binary files (strings of 100011000s). To "see" a picture you had to download each part one by one off the net, assemble them and then use another application to view them. This often took 10 steps - just to view a single image.
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Sandy wrote: "Once I realize these facts, it is no time at all before I am glued to my screen, checking out alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.gaymen.
Here I am, 2:30 in the afternoon looking at stills of two men, fully, ahem, inserted, and it took me just seconds to do it (so I immediately went out looking for more). I downloaded a few (trying to be alert for visitors) mostly misses (i.e., what I think of as 'male' porno), then I saw something called an .mpg. I thought it was just another picture format, so did the usual, 'hit the decode button, then doubleclick.'
Another application came up on my computer: a video player. Next thing I knew, two men were going at it like ferrets on my desktop. I could resize them, pause them, speed them up, slow them down (but I couldn't get them to act more romantic. Sigh.) At this point, my paranoia *finally* kicked in, and I banished them to the electronic roundfile, but hey, for a minute today, there were men fucking on my computer!"
For me the best part is this: "I could resize them, pause them, speed them up, slow them down (but I couldn't get them to act more romantic. Sigh.)"
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Date: 2012-09-08 06:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-08 06:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-08 07:11 pm (UTC)You may want to ask for a blanket permission to quote in case something else from Sandy comes up.
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Date: 2012-09-08 07:01 pm (UTC)Thank you for sharing this.
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