Stop doing protocols
Computers were not meant to communicate
Wanted to network them anyway for a laugh? We already had a tool for that, it was called floppy disks

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@rq That made me wonder what was the earliest portable rewriteable data storage.

@robryk@qoto.org I mean, people did software distribution on magnentic tapes and punch tapes before personal computers

@rq Sure. Computer networks are, however, at least as old as early 1960s.

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