In the "good old days", you had to write essentially everything yourself. "Packages" didn't exist. If you were one of the privileged few who had Internet conne

In the "good old days", you had to write essentially everything yourself. "Packages" didn't exist. If you were one of the privileged few who had Internet connectivity, maybe you could ftp some useful stuff, or maybe not. What libraries and such did exist were mostly sold through the mail from ads in the backs of computer magazines. On floppy disks.