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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 :)



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


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.




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