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Re:In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a ... by photojosh on Thursday June 17, 2021 @07:19PM (#27545553)
This gave me a flashback to pre-web days, when I was in a developing country as a kid, and:

- used "FTP via email"

- connected via a national call ($$) to a shell account

- used pine to copy+paste email text into local files and vice-versa

- assembled segmented files by hand, then decoded and decompressed

- all on a Mac Portable

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