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I believe I do! Where it'd paint the progress gif or line by line with other formats as it downloaded? You could terminate early if it wasn't what you wanted.

• a-dub 4y ago
  and full blown point and click guis! of course it was made irrelevant by the fledgling world wide web.
  • mmastrac 4y ago
    RIP script bombs on BBSes were evil. You could black out someone's screen until they exited and dialed back up.
    • a-dub 4y ago
      come to think of it, i don't think there were any private multiline boards in my local toll-free calling area. it was only packet switched commercial services and shell based internet at the libraries/university.
      • mmastrac 4y ago
        The only multi-line one I remember vividly was running MajorBBS. The inter-user chat was especially vulnerable to sending RIP commands as it didn't filter them out.
    • CamperBob2 4y ago
      "My user number? Why, 99E99, of course."