I'm so old that the web was called "Gopher", and Google was called "archie", which indexed the filenames on anonymous FTP sites. Since most of the file were named with 8.3 conventions, it was pretty unclear what something was until you went there and downloaded it. I remember ftp.funet.fi having a lot of stuff, and it was pretty cool that you could download some stuff from the US government (I think I downloaded the budget one time for a student congress debate).
ftp.funet.fi still exists, by the way :) Downloading a Linux distro or something from funet used to be a common way to measure your connection speed in Finland because you could be pretty damn sure the other end isn't going to be a bottleneck!
