People Who Still Use The Internet Like It’s 1998.
3 years agoSo the internet has evolved a lot since the late 1990s, but for some reason there are people out there who are still using it like nothing’s changed. For instance, today I got an email, and attached to it was a BMP file (yes, that’s right, a BMP file) which looked like this:
So someone has taken the time to take a Calvin and Hobbes image, open it in a photo editor, add a caption at the top, and change a word in the last panel from something kid-safe to “shit.”
I’m fine with this so far, to a point. But after going through all that work… why not upload it to a photo sharing site and email the link to people? Instead they save it as a BMP (half a megabyte) and email it out! Could you share this any less conveniently? Why not just make photocopies and put them in the mail?
My cousin is another passer-on of such antiquities. He regularly emails me (and a handful of others at once) with video attachments of varying enormous size, nearly all of which are readily available on YouTube.
I feel like somewhere there has been a divide. These people clearly used to know how to use computers. They email, they edit photos with ‘witty’ captions. But they got stuck in the last century somehow. Nobody’s mentioned to them that the technological revolution continues.
It leads me to wonder, is this just the tip of the iceberg? Is there some subset of people out there still surfing for porn via BBS? Is someone still dialing into Prodigy with their 14.4 baud modem? Are there people using CompuServ and surfing the web with Netscape Navigator 2.0? What happened that these people got so left behind?
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