That's true. However, before the web, it was absolutely common to anonftp to some site, download the software, type ./configure and make, and off you went. That

That's true. However, before the web, it was absolutely common to anonftp to some site, download the software, type ./configure and make, and off you went. That's how software got distributed. And Internet standards. Not the same as the web, of course, and your grandmother wouldn't have been doing it.