Nah these were still king of the pron. Blanks in a shoebox under a bed. Some wild jungle shit on them that made you understand why you are a mixed baby. It wasn't your parents on the tape. It's just what daddy liked.

Those do not look like VHS cassettes

If you were a real pervert like me you needed zip disks

Assuming that as an older millennial, I’m the parent you’re talking about, no. Porn almost never went on those. VHS and paper magazines mostly. Computer porn would be downloaded to a convoluted folder depth with misleading names on your hard drive, and would never be placed on removable media unless you had a CD burner, which was rare as fuck (but they did exist).

Seriously though, people used to make genuine mazes out of nested folders.

If you were in the era of dial up BBS systems, you still were far more likely to use a hard drive than a floppy. The reason floppies weren’t used is that even at low resolution with still images, not much would fit on the things, super inconvenient. Shareware, sure. Porn? Not likely.

Even using just 8bit color depth you’d only be able to store a single 424x424 pixel image (uncompressed) on a “high density” 1.4MB floppy.

That’s absolutely garbage, but makes it all the more impressive that an upgrade from windows 95 to the first version of windows XP only took two floppy disks.

Edit: It seems I might be mistaken and the two-disk upgrade was more likely from 98 or 98SE not directly from 95.

Millennial lies!

Porn in the 90's, that was not in print, was stored on tape. By the mid 90:s the most tech savvy of us saved porn on a "zip disk" which were also primarily tape drives.

used to burn snes roms on these

I wonder if it only took until the 1920s for people to say "back in the 1800s" in order to anger the old people

No, that was my porn collection. And yes i lost a lot of it.

It was feasible to download online images or WMV, AVI or RealPlayer videos to floppies. But it would take 8 minutes to download 1.44 MB over a mid-range 28k modem in 1999, and it could hold about 50 640x480 JPEGs or two minutes of 240p video.

Or did you mean "this was the internet back then" as in sneakernet or another non-computer alternative (not actually a connection between computers but accomplishing the same goal)?

Alternatively, "porn" could also mean lewd text, which load faster than one can read even on slowest modems, and a floppy can hold hundreds of pages printed on a dot matrix printer. Over two thousands with compression.

Uuuh I don't think that in the 1900's they had magnetic diskettes. :)

Floppies are particularly vulnerable to decay from my understanding.

I found a box of 8-12 disks a few years ago and exactly none of them were readable. That's probably bad luck but...

Hmmm sweet 16 colors 320x200 jpg.

Oh sure yeah in 1906 people had porno jpegs on floppies, only problem was they didn't have the technology to access them 😅

Nah, it usually was tapes and magazines.

Screw you, buddy. It took me 3-years to download those 20-disks of porn and I'll be god damned if I allow my efforts to be besmirched by the likes of you!

Progressive JPEGs.

Your parents in 640x480 glory.

What, you have porn in 4k?

… what for?