I regret to inform you that the internet was alive and well in 1989. I can personally attest to downloading dirty pictures from newsgroups, even if the larger ones required multiple pieces and we had to clip the headers and concatenate the files. The online guitar archive for tablature was also available and 100% free.
I keep the O’Reilly user’s guide to the Internet around just to show young people this chapter…
http://info.cern.ch/ still works.
also, what is this image, for people with cranked necks?
Yes. Also me trying to take a legible picture of an old fashioned book.
while it’s not a meme, I think the netizens of !antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world would appreciate seeing this, or anything else from this book.
thank you for sharing this stuff
Lol. Maybe I’ll scan the chapter when I get a chance. Until then enjoy another page.
No wonder why I still have a lingerie fetish
Fredrick’s of Hollywood, baby. I hoarded those
Same. As a teen in a repressive cult, I’d steal em from the mail I picked up and hide em under the sinks cabinet (for some reason there was a slight space. Couldn’t see even if you looked, but you could feel around and be able to grab it).
Victoria’s Secret catalogue was in my spank bank.
Look how happy they are, this is how we won the (first) cold war. Take that, Kruschev!
