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vindreply
lemmy.world

Short for avatar, which used to be the name for profile pictures

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the schwa in /'a-və-ˌtär/ is a close homophone of /ɪ/ combined with English's habit of forming diminutives using /ɪː/

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It’s a great thing we don’t type those extra three characters ong frfr

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I still call them buddy icons when I’m not thinking :facepalm:

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protistreply
mander.xyz

.avi was a video file format like .mpg back in the day when we had to download our porn one file at a time, slowly. Though in this instance I'm assuming it's a fucking stupid shorthand for "avatar."

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BreadOvenreply
lemmy.world

Oh, I'd forgotten about .avi's. Also haven't thought about limewire in about as long.

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Anticorpreply
lemmy.world

I too forgot all about .avi's. How did that happen?

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stoyreply
lemmy.zip

Probably due to you not remembering them

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Obireply
sopuli.xyz

Well do you at least remember DviX?

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Compression format, xvid replaced it before the hevc codecs were invented.

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Audio-video interleave, an early video container that sucked because you couldn't play it unless it was complete, making it unfit for streaming. The only use I can think of nowadays is to generate an NTSC MPEG-2 file that even early DVD+USB players will play, for testing composite video equipment.

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lemy.lol

I'm not high enough for this. Someone tell me what I'm supposed to see which isn't there.

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I'm still not awake after waking up recently so I saw it right away lol

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