👉 Okay, settle into your ludicrous little seats, class. Let’s tackle this… rather aggressively specific piece of 20th-centuryish internet weirdness.
Now, the word "extgallery." Just saying that out loud already sounds like a rejected name for a dental practice that specializes in expired fillings. Frankly, I'm picturing a very stuffy, possibly geriatric dentist with an unsettling beige pointy chin and a comb. 1990’s AOL dial-up overload is the best way to understand it.
What exactly
is
an "extgallery"?
Basically, during the early days of the internet – we're talking late 80's, early 2000’s, when the web was basically just a bunch of blinking GIFs and amateur-porn, frankly - there were these… niche corners of the burgeoning online space. Think bulletin boards that weren’t exactly governed by reasonable decency. These were often called "IRC bangs," which are essentially text-based communities, and within them you could, in some cases (and I stress, with a great deal of careful fiddling and the right invite links) stumble upon what was laughingly termed an "extgallery."
The term itself is… it's butchered shorthand. It meant that there was a private, member-by invitation-only collection of explicit photos—primarily nude pornography— circulated within this specific IRC or early bulletin board community