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[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 47 points 1 week ago

How did this picture happen

This is so absurd, fancy outfit, hair, gun, computer

Art.

[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 26 points 1 week 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.

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

All the people saying she looks like Scully and her surname is pretty much the same as the actress who played that character? This idea practically fell into the laps of the people behind these photos.

Frankly, I would not be surprised if she had it as an office nickname before this even occurred to them.

[-] Konstant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, this picture got me wondering whatever happened to Scully (the actress).

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Gillian Anderson was in the reboot, she's alive (and still pretty hot imo).

[-] Atomicbunnies@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I thought it was Scilly from the X-Files at first lol.

Edit: Scully

[-] hersh@literature.cafe 9 points 1 week 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 4 points 1 week 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 3 points 1 week 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.

[-] Lemjukes@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

Can’t find a copy of the screen but it literally says “Apple 8” on the screen… NB Mac OS 8 came out July 1997.

[-] hersh@literature.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

I'm not sure what the exact model is, but it's probably from the Performa or Power Mac 5000 or 6000 series. It's low-res so it's hard to read, but the text next to the floppy drive says "PowerPC", referring to the CPU family used in Macs in that era.

The screen looks like Mac OS 8. It's so low-rest that it's kind of hard to tell, but the menu bar at the top of the screen is clearly from Mac OS. Could be 7.5, but I'm guessing 8 since that's what's shown in the web browser.

I think the left screen is showing Windows. Again, super low-res, but those look like Windows 95/98's blue window title bars and gray task bar at the bottom.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Looks like a 1990s corporate training video.

[-] hansolo@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

There's one more...

https://thechive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/thtablrtsuyc1.jpg

Looks like one of those images that's a old as the internet. Mac OS 8 on the screen was released in 1997, and this looks like a pretty late 90s type of photo. The 90s were wild when it came to things like someone taking photos, being then developed, scanning them, putting them online, etc. Stuff like this was the foundation of early memes and websites.

[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 week 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.

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