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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 13 Jan 1997.
The Slow WWW

The Slow WWW


Hi list, here is another cartoon, ridiculing the slow WWW. Hope you like
it, comments welcome.

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02                                                           02
03  Queen Birdstein, Impatiently Surfing the World Wide Web  03
04  by Pete Casso 970113                                     04
05                                                           05
06             Swim faster, slowpokes! Faster frogstrokes!   06
07           /                                               07
08     .....                uh!     ah!     oh!     Ribbit!  08
09      WWW                /       /       /       /         09
10      ( ">             .oo     .oo     .oo     .00         10
11     (> )> ========= (  -) ==(  -) ==(  -) ==(  -)         11
12  ~~~ ^^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  12
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From: pet...@aol.com (PeteCasso)
Subject: The Slow WWW
Date: 1997/01/13
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