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I wonder if they watch their planet porn arrive one scan line at a time.

• kmm 8y ago
  There's a lovely photo of scientists manually painting the scan lines coming in from Mariner 4, like a paint by numbers picture https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1982.html https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1...
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• tabtab 8y ago
  I can tell you stories about the days of 300 baud dial-up modems.
  • jcims 8y ago
    When 256 colors was good enough...
    • garmaine 8y ago
      For high res displays. The rest of us got by on 16 colors.
  • pmcjones 8y ago
    And 110 baud before that (Model 33 Teletype).