Source: u/Tiger_man_ on Reddit

    • fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net
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      7 days ago

      A little googling and I’ve come up with that the name of the woman is Eve Astrid Andersson (now a director at Google) and this was essentially a series of photos taken at her work at the time as a joke.

    • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com
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      6 days ago

      And that is, as far as one can tell from an image, an actual gun as I doubt an airsoft manufacturer would bother with the gas block or dust cover.

      • hersh@literature.cafe
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        7 days ago

        Same.

        That was probably the intention. X-Files was at its height of popularity around this time (assuming 1997 by the Mac model and OS 8).

        • jaybone@lemmy.world
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          7 days ago

          This image has been floating around Lemmy for the past week or so. One of them appears to have an original timestamp/watermark from like 1998.

          Is that really a Mac though? Looks like a pc running a Netscape browser and some AOL garbage.

          • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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            7 days ago

            It’s definitely a Mac. I remember that case from middle school. Apple computers were huge in education in the 80s/90s. It was their staple cash cow back then before Jobs came back and they started chasing Starbucks-guzzling hipsters.