Pictures in this collection were sized for the connections of their time, and that shaped what the jokes could be. An image had to work at a width that fitted a small screen and a file size that would arrive over a dial-up line, so the composition was blunt: one subject, high contrast, large type, nothing that depended on fine detail.
The consequence is visible in the archive itself. Many entries exist only as a thumbnail, and enlarging one now produces a soft, blocky picture that looks like a fault but is the original. Where only a small copy survived, it is shown at its archived size rather than stretched. Pictures in this collection circulated by email and on forums, and the original authors are usually unknown.
Swappin
Fish N' Chips
Too much drinking
Big cat
Tans
Dress to kill 3
Hope
The main difference between Europe and the USA