Sometimes it feels like we live our lives by the progress bar, just one pixel at a time. Just endless waiting for digital completion. In my youth it was watching D-copy or X-copy slowly copy an 880MB or 1.44HD floppy. Later, when I started testing software for a living it was animated progress bars of all kinds. One developer thought it would be fun to add an animated gif as a progress bar to keep us testers entertained. It just looped forever until the activity was complete. Its only job was to let you know that something was happening, unless the software had crashed in the background of course, then you would be watching that animation forever.
We can waste our life just watching progress bars.