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Sneakernet is OK, but I still prefer IPoAC.
That was exactly what I thought it was. Classic! And an official RFC (although introduced on April 1).
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1149
Ah you beat me to it
Yup 5-6 floppies and if one failed you could try to go back and copy one, but usually had to start over.
I got the Mac copy of Photoshop 4 from my high school this way with .sit files. It was like second to last floppy that failed (probably an ok AOL disk) and I had to go back the next day and copy it again. But it worked!
Not long after that a friend of mine got a ZIP drive, but it wasn’t SCSI, so it didn’t work with my computer. I didn’t get one until college (essential for a graphic designer in the late 90s).
Right there with you!
My first experience with the internet was Gopher.