LOL - yes, it reminds me of Unix tapes being swapped back and forth at university.
My very first access to the internet was through email only. The way to download things (small things for Minix at first, eventually multi-floppy distributions of Linux) was to email instructions to an email-FTP gateway, which would follow your instructions, then send you your files back segmented into many emails, with a few KB uuencoded in each. And this was before MIME email attachments, so re-construction was by hand. Someone wandering around with a "paquete" like this would have been bliss!
