@DarthAzrael 16 December 2022

In the 1980s, before the Internet was available and when commercial online services were expensive, there were still other ways to obtain software besides just going to the store. One way was through disk subscription services. I'm not sure how popular these were on other computers but there were several for Commodore 8-bit computers. The most popular was probably Loadstar. This particular ad is for one such disk subscription called Uptime. Read more: https://blurt.blog/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/uptime-commodore-64