Imagine driving without an opposable thumb. It would look much sillier. Thanks, ancestors! Your disk were big, but your internets were nuller.

In birds with anisodactyl or heterodactyl feet, the hallux is opposed or directed backwards and allows for grasping and perching.

And after the first week it was filled with pR0n

And not just any pr0n, but that ASCII/dot matrix kind you used to download on your 3600 baud modem.

"I think I see a breast!"

Eideteker, it was 1982 before I got a 1200 baud modem and it was the ultimate hawtness for several years thereafter, since the early 2400 baud modems were notorious for dropping out, and cost upwards of $1000. The jumps to 9600 baud and up were painfully long in coming, too, as major online services like Compuserve and AOL refused to re-buy thousands of racks full of 2400 baud modems until they worked right.

I remember distinctly in 1995 when MindSpring (a forerunner of Earthlink) finally got reliable 28.8 connects more than 95% of the time in 1995. When I first started with them, it was a miracle to keep a 14.4 link running for more than an hour, from metro Atlanta exchanges.

And the first porn I exchanged wasn't downloaded as ASCII characters, it was mailed to me as a 7 bit TTY punch tape with parity, which I uploaded as a 16K bit file, converted to ASCII, re-formatted, and put on 360K floppy disks and audio cassette tapes, and mailed to a few friends who were also running CP/M rigs.

To "see a breast," we were still reading Playboy.

That's a lot of effort to go through just to fap...

Uphill! In the snow!

BOTH WAYZ!!!1!