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

There's a lovely photo of scientists manually painting the scan lines coming in from Mariner 4, like a paint by numbers picture

I can tell you stories about the days of 300 baud dial-up modems.

When 256 colors was good enough...

For high res displays. The rest of us got by on 16 colors.

And 110 baud before that (Model 33 Teletype).