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520 points omnibrain | 1 comments | 30 Mar 24 13:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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donatj ◴[30 Mar 24 18:05 UTC] No.39877123[source]▶
That’s a name I have not heard in a long while. I used to use it back on Windows 95 because it was a faster way to view JPEGs than opening Internet Explorer. Everything about that makes me feel old.
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AlienRobot ◴[30 Mar 24 18:17 UTC] No.39877250[source]▶
>I used to use it back on Windows 95 because it was a faster way to view JPEGs than opening Internet Explorer.

That's an amazing sentence. We should frame it and put it in a museum. Actually someone should make a book filled just with quotes like this, call it "Life Before the Gigahertz" or something.

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necubi ◴[30 Mar 24 18:45 UTC] No.39877500[source]▶
I see so many comments these days bemoaning how slow modern software has gotten, but no one seems to remember/have been alive for the time when just rendering an image would take multiple seconds.

Just goes to show that our expectations scale with the available technology.

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1. muxator ◴[30 Mar 24 20:58 UTC] No.39878589{3}[source]▶
And now decoding a jpeg takes the blink of an eye, but we wait five seconds for a widget to render. When it does, we click somewhere else, because in that exact moment the layout was reflown.