Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 02, 2020

And this was before broadband.

What is he downloading it to? The library computer?

Oh look, here comes the nice men from Security…

Shouldn’t take too long then, Elmont.

Apparently, he was an early beta tester for the Kindle.

Reminds me of in the early days of the WWW, there were reports of newbies wanting to “download the Internet.”

Now you could keep it in your back pocket.

Nice way to ensure a warm place to spend the night. Library or jail, still (relatively) warm.

His modem must be smoking. I don’t know what he is smoking.

it wasn’t even downloadable back then!