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>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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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.

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.

i remember watching images download and how relevant progressive rendering was. blurry shapes!

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