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You could definitely do DOS TCP/IP stuff, I had a 286 in my dorm room I could telnet with, but it was pretty cranky to set up.

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KA9QNOS FTW!

http://www.ka9q.net/code/ka9qnos/

There were other ways too, but i found that code so valuable several times

I thought I may have been on the only person on the planet with a 286 in my dorm room and using the Internet. I used an application who's name I can't remember but it had a TCP/IP stack and was an email client, news client, and text based web browser for real mode DOS. This was around 1995.

You're not the only one. Minuet was what I used.

Yes that was it! I knew if I heard the name, I'd remember.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Internet_Users_Essen...

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