Does anyone remember Kermit?

[hazel]

I don't mean the frog! I mean the communications protocol which sort of predated the Internet. Kermit was my introduction to free software; I don't know if it was open-source, but the protocol itself was completely open. People were encouraged to write their own Kermit clients if there wasn't an existing one for their OS and machine, and contribute them to the collection. And all the existing clients were available free of charge. So it became very popular and almost a de-facto standard. I still remember how much I admired the this community project.

[D-cat]

Yes. It can still be useful in transferring files an a long distance/high lag direct communications connection (like cellular or satellite phone), but those connections have themselves been obsoleted by the Internet. It used to be standard right next to Xmodem in any serial COM program.