I didn’t get dial-up Internet until 1999, and it was still a good few years after that before the global funny pictures economy really picked up.
Google images was launched in 2001 but didn’t index that many images. Around that time, if you saw a funny picture you’d save it to your hard drive, because if you didn’t then you’d possibly never see it again even if you wanted to.
It took another few years still for the number of indexed images on search to really ramp up.
I’d say 2005 was about the point where you could easily find a picture of a raccoon in a funny hat reliably and on-demand.
Yeah, but 30 years ago houses were stock full of magazines with large photos. I still have quite a lot of those.
And I was chronically online at points in my life and was in 2002 at least, and I’m pretty sure I may have seen raccoons in hats. But definitely well developed open forums by that point, so you could just ask an artistic person to draw one.
Paint Shop Pro came out in 1990, so you could do basic editing, however you had to find the Raccoon. Perhaps copy it from your Encarta CD, after you waited until 1993!
50 years ago? More like 20.
I didn’t get dial-up Internet until 1999, and it was still a good few years after that before the global funny pictures economy really picked up.
Google images was launched in 2001 but didn’t index that many images. Around that time, if you saw a funny picture you’d save it to your hard drive, because if you didn’t then you’d possibly never see it again even if you wanted to.
It took another few years still for the number of indexed images on search to really ramp up.
I’d say 2005 was about the point where you could easily find a picture of a raccoon in a funny hat reliably and on-demand.
Yeah, but 30 years ago houses were stock full of magazines with large photos. I still have quite a lot of those.
And I was chronically online at points in my life and was in 2002 at least, and I’m pretty sure I may have seen raccoons in hats. But definitely well developed open forums by that point, so you could just ask an artistic person to draw one.
Paint Shop Pro came out in 1990, so you could do basic editing, however you had to find the Raccoon. Perhaps copy it from your Encarta CD, after you waited until 1993!