I remember

I remember newsgroups on usenet. People would post nudes and the nicest posters offered you a page of indexed thumbnails because otherwise it was a time consuming, shot in the dark, as you watched, in real time, a picture being generated, scrolling line by scrolling line. The funniest was where you were trolled, as you watched an ostensibly hot girl being revealed line by line, only to discover, a minute or two later, that she wasn't all-girl, lol.