before there was internet (before it was popular i mean), there was bbs's
you would connect with a dial-up connection and the interface was built all with ascii characters.
you could download warez and porn.
some of them required you to upload stuff, and some of them had monthly fees.
a friend of mine had a server like that built on a 80386 machine with 14k modem.
old days...
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