This gave me a flashback to pre-web days, when I was in a developing country as a kid, and: - used "FTP via email" - connected via a national call ($$) to a s

This gave me a flashback to pre-web days, when I was in a developing country as a kid, and: - used "FTP via email" - connected via a national call ($$) to a shell account - used pine to copy+paste email text into local files and vice-versa - assembled segmented files by hand, then decoded and decompressed - all on a Mac Portable