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Sometimes you'd see a program you wanted in the back pages of pcworld or another one of those huge computer-warehouse type magazines, and you'd have to fill out a little card and mail in a check while trusting that in a month or two it'd arrive.. I got wolf3d, jill of the jungle, and commander keen this way.

I recently found a package from some PCAnywhere-esque software company that mailed me a copy back in the late 90s.

We would physically mail 9-track tapes back and forth all the time. If you wanted, say, the BSD 4.2 Unix distribution, that was more efficient than downloading it over a 56kbps DDS line or some such.

I meant email, which is generally my default meaning for "mail". I could have worded it better...