@starkatt Huh. Local BBSes at 2400 baud, Fidonet (and Furnet atop it) at 14.4k tossing QWK zips into the zoid, and then my first 'real' shell account was on a dialup non-broadband commercial provider back when those was a thing, when you still fingered peoples' .plans to see what they were up to - or just TF'd into FM to drop friends a pagemail, if I didn't mav whoever was soloing the botspot from the GC.
Mmph.
I long for The Grid. Things were simpler on two wheels. u.u