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This is a bit like accessing the internet from chm (help) files when the browser was blocked.

Damn. I revealed my age!

Are we revealing our age through exploits now? How about "using gopher on a university library terminal to access a site that launched a telnet session so you can check your out-of-state college email over the summer"?

I definitely didn't use the open dialog in Notepad to run other executables at the library.

WinPopup LAN messenger!

I was a student at a boarding school in the 90s that left WinPopup installed. I quickly found it and taught the whole campus. They tried to remove it but we had backups by that point. Then we found the teacher access internet proxy which had none of the student restrictions and shared it with everyone via WinPopup… I told the staff when I graduated.

F5 in notepad or use .LOG as first line.

Heck, in the last 5 years I've used this to create and run bat files on supposedly locked down citrix boxes :D

Been there done that.

https://www.nyx.net/

Allowed free shell accounts and the college board in GA offered free local dialup access to a Gopher server (Peachnet).

I had a terminal script that navigated through the Gopher menu until I could get to Nyx.

Wow - they still host user websites, some of which are from the 90's, with iframes, patterned backgrounds, etc. So cool.

https://www.nyx.net/userhomes.html

I find it quite amusing that you are warned about “large websites” they host where the pages are over 25Kb

Or using it to reinstall games that had been deleted by an administrator…

Shit, wish I'd thought of that when I was in school.

at my high school we used to open windows explorer by the file open dialog in notepad to escape the weird bookshelf shell.. i think it was an ibm product.

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