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Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio (newslttrs.com)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

It's so gratifying to hear from people on the internet who are older than I am. And this article reads like it bounced off a Listserv to a yahoo email address.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You don’t even need to go that far to see this technology in action. In the Eastern Europe we got microcomputers pretty late but that also meant our journey through the technological advancements from 1990 to 2010 started with a trickle of obsolete western stuff but then became a wild rollercoaster ride. At close to 40 I remember games being transmitted on the scout radio. You could also get games from magazines which simply printed source code.