Just look at all those services available from nic.funet.fi: https://web.archive.org/web/19961105014833/http://nic.funet.fi/FUNET/ftp/cnames.html https://web.ar

Just look at all those services available from nic.funet.fi: https://web.archive.org/web/19961105014833/http://nic.funet.fi/FUNET/ftp/cnames.html https://web.archive.org/web/19961105014833/http://nic.funet.... Archie, X.500, ftp, gopher, telnet, irc, mailing lists, USENET, WAIS, WWW (remember to use WWW clients), a caching WWW server for Funet members, Alex ("Global filesystem for all anonymous ftp sites with caching (experimental)") You could telnet into the system with username info and use command-line clients for some of these services if you didn't have access at your home university. I vaguely remember using an email-based service to access web pages: you sent the URL to an address and got a reply with the page contents rendered as text. That probably wasn't Funet but something else.