You guys, I was thinking about this, this morning, and I’m willing to bet that most of you under the age of 25 or so weren’t aware:
In the infancy of the internet – when web browsers were just barely becoming a thing, and we were still working out how to deal with loading images on a regular basis – you couldn’t just right-click and save a .gif file.
There was a time, not a long period of time but significant enough that I remember it, when if you right-clicked on an animated .gif image and selected “save as”, you would literally save a still image of the single frame of the .gif that you clicked on. And there was no “copy image link”; in order to find its url, you had to investigate the source code of the page it was embedded into. (Mind you that used to be a lot easier when it was all super-basic HTML.)
So when you encounter frustration today, some minor issue that is just annoying the fuck out of you, I want you to think of me and say to yourself “At least I’m not using Netscape 1.1.”
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