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How did the AOL software provide internet access to other applications running on Windows 95/98?
During the late 1990s, I (and countless others) accessed the internet by running software provided by America Online (mailed to my house on free CD-ROMs) and using a dial-up modem to access their ...
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What systems actually used the ACCT command in FTP?
FTP has a USER command for sending the user name and a PASS command for sending the password. It also has an ACCT command, as RFC 959 page 26 explains:
ACCOUNT (ACCT)
The argument field is a ...
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Why was Wireplay "faster and more reliable" than dial-up Internet, since they both used the same hardware?
In 1997, there was this service called Wireplay in the UK.
Instead of using the Internet, you used it by directly phoning their servers with your modem from your PC, and the point of this was that it ...
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Problem accessing Internet from old phones/PDAs (HTTPS, SSL, certificates, compatible services,....) [closed]
How to connect 18-12 years non supported OSes/devices to Internet?
Specifically PDAs and phones, that are more limited to use additional components/accesories?
(*) Answer related to computers can be ...
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Networking WfW 3.11 between modern ethernet and 56k internal modem card
Is there any way i could use either of those networking cards and use them on a modern ethernet system? We have aDSL where i live. If i couldnt connect it to my home network, is there any way i could ...
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How to configure NETWORK and TCP on a DOS VM
I'm trying to install and use the Arachne broswer under DOS (6.22). I've DOS installed on VirtualBox VM (5.2.34) under Linux Ubuntu (4.15.0-88-generic #88-Ubuntu).
I'm in trouble in configuring ...
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When TCP was first invented, was the initial sequence number required to be random?
In current time, when a TCP connection is initiated, the initial sequence number is required to be random.
But I am wondering, when TCP was first invented, was the initial sequence number required to ...
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Format of "Pound" domains in RFC 821
This is a bit of an archaeological question, but RFC 821, page 31, paragraph 3 describes a syntax for mailbox addresses that is of the form local_path@#123, where the pound and the following number is ...
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