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Topic: OK I never knew it before, but they refer to computer/network "doing shit so wait" animations as thr

boof started this discussion 5 months ago #128,246

throbbers. That's just evocative of a cock and I have to figure that someone made a cock animated throbber. But here's the original throbbers, from Mosaic/Netscape.

http://www.netscape-communications.com/netscapes-throbber-and-logos/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbber

boof (OP) double-posted this 5 months ago, 7 minutes later[^] [v] #1,382,824

so poking around I found this crazy collection of gifs
https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/index.html

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 5 months ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,382,848

im more partial to the fixed-width |/-\

boof (OP) replied with this 5 months ago, 8 hours later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,383,204

@previous (B)
I recall encountering that somewhere but I can't even