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VINTAGE Katarina Witt - Playboy USA December 1998 - 11x MQ

Discussion in 'Celebrity Photos' started by blump314, Jun 30, 2022.

  1. blump314

    blump314 Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ 15 Year Member Poll Wizard!

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  2. Snark

    Snark I had nachos! 15 Year Member

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    Perfection. Thanks! :applause:
     
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  3. Magge

    Magge Yoda no more, just a friendly alpaca lover ! ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member Movers & Shakers Power Poster The Alpaca Whisperer Phun Award Holder

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    Amazing She was ! :yup:
    ... still is.
     
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    The Lurker Pixel Pusher ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Ten Years of Phun

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    Wow, haven't seen a RoM set in ages! :) Thanks Blump

    For those who aren't old enough to remember, 'Retired Old Man' or RoM as he was known on the usenet, was a scanner of Playboy print editions who used to post the pictorials every month for all of us dial-up internet users. We would eagerly anticipate his scans every month, around which he would place a border (people still did that back then) like the ones you see above. Each photo would take about 2-3 minutes to download, so each picture counted! And RoM always did quality work.

    (He changed his border style over the years, from the more basic one you see above to more of a picture frame/filigree version and then back to a minimalist frame, but it was part of his signature style, if you will)

    Then one day in mid-2003 or so, he simply stopped posting. :( We all assume he'd died or something, because that was the last time any of us heard from him...

    I took over PB posting duties for awhile, but then I got busy with life stuff and usenet was kinda dying by then in favor of forums, so...

    -----------

    Anyway, a little history for ya. Cheers! :cheers:
     
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  5. spinmonk

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    Appreciated that history. I've recognized the tag RoM but never knew. And thanks for taking up the torch as well for awhile!
     
  6. blump314

    blump314 Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ 15 Year Member Poll Wizard!

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    a great story, very interesting, thanks for sharing it with us!
    (i used to be on usenet as well, oh a (very) long time ago)

    for the ones interested, here is a dwld link for the playboy pdf, a piece of history obviously!

    i will check if there are other scans of his...
     
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    The Lurker Pixel Pusher ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Ten Years of Phun

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    ADD: Always hated the fact they cut off the bottom half of the last image in the print version, here's the full pic with a couple of color passes:

    [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]

    Thanks, those were a labor of love :) I asked RoM how he got such good scans without the usual 'curl-up' at the seams, and he basically said he (very carefully) destroyed the spine of the magazine to extract the individual pages in order to lay them flat, so that's what I did as well. A good mag must die in order to preserve it digitally!

    Oh neat. :) Yeah, the birth of the internet was an interesting time for those of us who got to experience it. I think RoM would appreciate the fact that his work continues to live on nearly a quarter century after the fact online. Thanks for helping to keep his memory alive! :mutual:
     
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    Thank you guys, great work as always! :beerchug::beerchug:
     
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    Gorgeous woman but clicking on the images makes my antivir go crazy.
     
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    blump314 Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ 15 Year Member Poll Wizard!

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    i've been told that
    my turboimagehost account is always open (i delete all cookies but not turboimagehost's) and i do not get anything
    in such cases, the "best" is to have an account?!
     
  12. schmoe80

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    I figured I'd put a couple through an AI clean-up to see how they came out. Not bad, I think!

    [​IMG]

    [​IMG]
     
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    Yeah, I switched to Pixhost because of that.
     
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  14. beckinsale's thong

    beckinsale's thong

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    lots of pop ups to knock down

    x-stream-ly hot female
     
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    Xray Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member

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    Image Twist isn't much better.
     
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    Thanks everyone! She was hot back then.
     
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  17. pigger

    pigger Tweedy's new boytoy ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ 15 Year Member Power Poster Tits & Tats Purveyor Of Furpie

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    :dance:
     
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    Kinda disappointing, in that there's at least one of those images chopped in half, the second page lost... I just scavenged this issue a few months ago, for Wasteland decoupage fodder... this was a definite stand-out pictorial, even by their standards. This lady was well nigh perfect.
     
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    I have a few more pictures sitting on a hard drive. Different/dodgy edits and other pictures. I can't tell if some are from the same shoot, it's simply too long ago.

    [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]
     
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  20. blump314

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    thanks for sharing! :arms:
     
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