On: I'm leaving the Internet for a year

[gouranga]

It was incredibly inconvenient you mean?

In the mid-90s, before broadband proliferation, I managed to get from London to Manchester via train (200 miles) which takes bloody forever. When I got there, I realised I'd forgotten the damn software I was supposed to be installing (100Mb of deployables). That resulted in an additional 400 mile round trip to London and back via slow train.

A 2 day install job took 4 days and several hundred pounds.

Now I'd just log in to their kit and install it from the comfort of my favourite chair in 10 minutes :)

[ars → gouranga]

Wouldn't it have been cheaper to express mail it?

[gouranga → ars]

Cheaper yes but if you know the courier services in the UK at the time, there is no guarantee it'd get there on time.