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In the 1990's my university had a lot of dialup modem lines but only a small amount of them had PPP support. You would just get 1 terminal session. So I would
by lizknope 2y ago
In the 1990's my university had a lot of dialup modem lines but only a small amount of them had PPP support. You would just get 1 terminal session.
So I would dial in and then browse the web through lynx. It worked fine and was quicker because it wouldn't waste time loading images.
I recently tried Usenet for the first time in 20 years. I installed slrn the text based newsreader I used in the 1990's. It has very useful color support. I wish Usenet was more active instead of 90% spam. Having threads go for years and being able to go to the next post by hitting "n" instead of clicking around is a lot quicker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slrn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slrn