[bm3719]

My only source of internet in undergrad was dialing into my university's modem pool and getting a shell on the main server (a DEC Alpha running OSF/1). Browsing the web was done through lynx.

That worked fine but every now and then, a site would have some inline image that I'd want to see, so I'd view source to get the img URL and then download that to /tmp and transfer the file to my local machine via zmodem. Usually, it wouldn't be worth the effort. I'd also download mp3s off IRC via DCC and queue up a bunch of data for zmodem to transfer overnight or when I was in class. I really appreciated those bytes back then. Now, not so much.

[defaultcompany]

This reminded me that I used to view images over my dialup connection directly in the terminal by catting the image to pbmtoascii and making my terminal font 1 pixel high. It wasn't exactly pretty but it worked.

[stuff4ben]

LOL!! I thought I was the only person who did this. Back in the mid-90's I did the same thing. One day I was feeling a bit randy and decided to visit a certain centerfold magazine website and download some images that way.

[devilbunny]

One summer, I had access to a local university's Ultrix machine (on 4.2 BSD) via dialup. The connection was 7E1, so Zmodem was out.

But I could uuencode into a big buffer on my terminal program and uudecode locally.

[ronsor]

You might have been interested in SLiRP[0] at the time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slirp