> Even emails were not a proper replacement. Initially free providers only supported sending/receiving emails with 1 to 5 MB attachments. Pretty much every ISP

> Even emails were not a proper replacement. Initially free providers only supported sending/receiving emails with 1 to 5 MB attachments. Pretty much every ISP provided an email address for each account. Some email clients supported the MIME multipart/partial subtype which allowed for large attachments to be split up amongst multiple emails.