• affenlehrer@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    I believe before those we just used and remembered disgusting images like tubgirl.

    Well or ASCII art of trolls with fishes.

    I guess there just wasn’t enough bandwidth to send images around and not many platforms supporting images or hosting them. Traffic and bandwidth where expensive

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      2 months ago

      Goatse and LemonParty also had very short URL links to their images, so you could sneak in the <img src= bit into a comment field that only allowed like, fifty characters, and still have some room for a bit of text too.

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