I had several lever-arch folders of printed-out websites. Dial-up in the UK was too expensive to 'look it up again when I need it' so it was committed to hard-

I had several lever-arch folders of printed-out websites. Dial-up in the UK was too expensive to 'look it up again when I need it' so it was committed to hard-copy. I particularly remember NASA aerospace projects and the script of Aliens! Also common was dialling-in to download e-mail and Usenet and then going offline again to read them and compile responses which were cached until the next dial-in. Communication was much more async back then. I never really got into IRC as that required 'wasting phone time', in the UK we were charged by the minute just like a local phone call. So you made a plan, connected and went as fast as possible. This was assisted with printed Web Directory books which had URLs and summaries of the websites' contents!