Comments on: RETROTECHTACULAR: ASCII ART IN THE 19TH CENTURY https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/07/31/retrotechtacular-ascii-art-19th-century/ Fun with Virtualization Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:35:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/07/31/retrotechtacular-ascii-art-19th-century/comment-page-1/#comment-185373 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:35:24 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=7241#comment-185373 In reply to Rugxulo.

Sure you could browse one at a time, or just hoarde the whole ISO! … It’s madding to even point google images at the site, and just see the whole thing at once, effectively transferring it all in one go.

Remember standalone image viewers? 386 assembly optimized jpeg routines? I remember one cool one I used that was a TSR, and it would inspect filestreams as they were written to disk, and if it detected an image it’d display it as it was being written (transferred). Inconceivable things today.

]]> By: Rugxulo https://virtuallyfun.com/2017/07/31/retrotechtacular-ascii-art-19th-century/comment-page-1/#comment-185371 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:27:43 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/?p=7241#comment-185371 “To me what is crazy is that I can download an entire GIF CD faster today” … I found some online listings of the included files from that (Gifs Galore), if you’re curious, so you don’t necessarily have to download the whole thing unless it sounds worth your while:

ftp://sourceforge.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.cdrom.com/pub/cdrom/cdroms/gifs/00_index.htm

archive.org really should use “7z l *.iso” to show whats actually included. But I guess we’re (mostly) spoiled with very fast internet these days, so nobody cares. (The fact that dialup is still offered, and yet not dirt cheap, should be a crime.)

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