I still remember Nightmares of the old telephone dialing star system where you had to touch tone pick the right courses and they only had so many lines free so if if you got a busy signal you are pretty much not getting the classes you wanted
Future rfp : well respected university of higher learning seeks distributed library shelving for distribution of tomes of knowledge, must have PhD in advanced library technology and have an interest in dust jackets.
Maybe you can Bridges stuck in the old library mindset where you have to come here to get the book and they don't want the knowledge to actually be free I don't know who knows