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Found this dusty antique from the days when video players would let you buffer. If only this were still a thing. (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world

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Why did this change? Was it a greed thing?

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[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No one is producing computers with 16MB of ram that are meant to watch videos. Some laptops are still being made with ~2gb RAM. And some computers (in a different sense of the word) are currently being made with less than 32 kb of ram.