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Saoshyant
Oct 26, 2010

:hmmorks: :orks:


dweepus posted:

I started this account like a year or two ago and still have no clue what the hell 56k no means. With reddit imploding I imagine there will probably be other new users that have similar questions about forum lingo or history.

As you are likely aware, this place has existed for over 20 years. Back then people had those landline phone-based modems that were super slow, being the most common at the time the 56k ones.

It was good etiquette to warn those people not to click on a thread with a million images because that was going to cost them actual money to load.

Then it was kept as an in-joke over the years to say a thread consists mostly of multiple pictures per post.

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