My experience with it was when BBSs were common and access to The Internet was limited to universities. If you wanted to upload or download a file, you could u

My experience with it was when BBSs were common and access to The Internet was limited to universities. If you wanted to upload or download a file, you could use one of these programs like Kermit to manage the file transfer. My recollection was that invoking it was a manual step at first but I recall it being triggered automatically by the terminal/dialer program (for downloads at least). I almost always used xmodem, ymodem or zmodem. I had that same impression described in this article that Kermit was "slow".