Timotaysci
Nina KalininaTIL: FTP-by-email service.
From emu386 emulator manual (allows 386 instructions to be executed on 286):
> If you prefer to get it by MIME/UUencoded e-mail, you can use FTP-by-mail services
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Ángela Stella Matutina@angelastella why can't we have nice things :( most of the things from the link aren't possible anymore
Apparently the old Internet was "too open" and therefore "unsafe". You know what that means.
atsuko@angelastella @nina_kali_nina now wanna web search app that one can run on a linux/unix over telnet, and get the machine/human readable text result.
getting back to the idea of having local marginalia
jordan@nina_kali_nina I seem to recall the one local BBS that had internet connectivity offering a similar service, where files would be fetched over FTP and made available for you to download. All of the internet stuff there cost credits that needed to be paid for with money, though, and I was a kid with no money, so I never actually used anything there.
the Stripey Goodness@nina_kali_nina I am old.
When I was wee, and had only a FidoNet account on a local BBS (run by my chemistry teacher!), I would use the Fido-to-Internet E-Mail gateway to reach a Gopher-by-E-mail service.
I could make a search request, and in about a week or so I'd have a response!
Sqaaakoi 
@nina_kali_nina Pretty sure Richard Stallman does something insane like that for general web browsing
Mark Eichin@nina_kali_nina
Way back in the day I needed emacs on a consulting job at a Swiss bank, and ftpmailed it over their uucp link (may have wedged something, it took a couple of days to show up, and I picked up basic vi skills in the meantime :)
Way back in the day I needed emacs on a consulting job at a Swiss bank, and ftpmailed it over their uucp link (may have wedged something, it took a couple of days to show up, and I picked up basic vi skills in the meantime :)
David JONES@nina_kali_nina I used a similar thing at uni a bit. The mainframe we used was on JANET, only connected to The Internet at a few points in the UK. You could FTP files (mostly from the US) by emailing a gateway in, I think, Kent.
Hugo Mills@nina_kali_nina Those were great. The only problem was if you wanted a large file, it would arrive, 64K at a time, in uuencoded form, one part per email. You'd then have to extract the uu text from each email, stick them together in the right order, and uudecode the result.
I think my record for that was downloading the whole original ARM port of Linux, which was something like 60 MiB in two disk images. I didn't have a network on the target machine, either, so I transferred it all on floppies.
@darkling wow that must've hurt!
Gary Parker@nina_kali_nina oh $deity, I remember using one of those in the 90s when our vax cluster at uni didn’t allow direct internet access for undergrads. Having to uudecode everything before we could use it 😩