In 1983/86 not much was delivered over BBS, it was almost all floppy based. The 1.44 was around 50kbyte/sec, so it took a while before people generally had broa

In 1983/86 not much was delivered over BBS, it was almost all floppy based. The 1.44 was around 50kbyte/sec, so it took a while before people generally had broadband that would match that. However, a BBS didn't do a bad job with interfaces. I remember pcboard or iniquity which had reasonably good interfaces, you could often type what you wanted rather than navigate the menu system. What about phone calls from browsers, last time I looked at Teams it consumed around 250MB for the one process tab funnelling voice traffic. Also, most TUI interfaces don't suffer the way that the post describes, aside from vi itself, I don't remember much in the years gone by that is as fast as vim to work with, though, it has accumulated some timber since.