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September 19, 2012 4:12 PM Subscribe
What was this early type of downloaded porn?
Back in the Precambrian age of computer porn, I remember downloading files from BBS's. They were sort of a collage slash slideshow of like 3 to 5 second "video" clips which were little more then a glorified animated GIF (which of course, it may have in fact been), with some associated text and various bloops and bleeps. It may have come in the form of an .exe file, I don't seem to remember using any specific type of player for them..
Reason tells me they were probably just a horny offshoot of the demoscene, but I'm wondering if anyone else remembers these..
Back in the Precambrian age of computer porn, I remember downloading files from BBS's. They were sort of a collage slash slideshow of like 3 to 5 second "video" clips which were little more then a glorified animated GIF (which of course, it may have in fact been), with some associated text and various bloops and bleeps. It may have come in the form of an .exe file, I don't seem to remember using any specific type of player for them..
Reason tells me they were probably just a horny offshoot of the demoscene, but I'm wondering if anyone else remembers these..
We had one as a screensaver for a wide variety of (really) classic Macs. Unfortunately, it was just a naked woman vamping, not people screwing or anything. This is in the age before Pyro!, even.
posted by skbw at 5:13 PM on September 19, 2012
posted by skbw at 5:13 PM on September 19, 2012
I think the first animation I ever saw was a .gl file.
posted by DarkForest at 5:35 PM on September 19, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by DarkForest at 5:35 PM on September 19, 2012 [1 favorite]
I reckon ftm is right, but I'm just also going to throw Simusex (NSFW) out there.
posted by uncleozzy at 5:48 PM on September 19, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by uncleozzy at 5:48 PM on September 19, 2012 [1 favorite]
+1 for .gl files -- totally remember downloading and playing with GRASPRT.EXE an animated GIF blowjob thing with captions and PC speaker sounds.
posted by substars at 5:59 PM on September 19, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by substars at 5:59 PM on September 19, 2012 [1 favorite]
I remember FLI files being popular for this, erm, "use". GRASP (nice acronym, guys!) was also in use though, and I think that was the only one with sound features. FLI was strictly animation, comparable to an animated GIF.
posted by neckro23 at 9:45 AM on September 20, 2012
posted by neckro23 at 9:45 AM on September 20, 2012
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13 year old FTM was able to download one that accidentally made it onto the all access area of a local BBS. Shortly thereafter, FTM's mom got a call from the BBS admin.
Bless you, Norton Undelete.
posted by ftm at 4:40 PM on September 19, 2012 [11 favorites]