Later Dawn of Networking for me, I'd say. Email lists, webrings. and lots of private archives, though it wasn't long before Onelist and eGroups started managing lists in my fandoms. If the story was long enough, I'd load it, and then drop the connection to read it, or just copy and paste the whole text.
I had the advantage of a separate line for the internet, so no having to worry about other people's phone calls, but I was still paying by the minute for the connection in the early days.
Of course, like ratcreature, I had the strange MS Word curly quotes problem - I used the Windows macro-recorder to automate find-replacing the codes with the proper text characters. And I still occasionally find an old story with hard returns making 80 characters to the line, because that's how it was posted to email back in the day.
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Date: 2018-12-31 15:35 (UTC)I had the advantage of a separate line for the internet, so no having to worry about other people's phone calls, but I was still paying by the minute for the connection in the early days.
Of course, like ratcreature, I had the strange MS Word curly quotes problem - I used the Windows macro-recorder to automate find-replacing the codes with the proper text characters. And I still occasionally find an old story with hard returns making 80 characters to the line, because that's how it was posted to email back in the day.