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by nineteen999 2576 days ago
That reminds me of the story of Trumpet Winsock and it's author Peter Tattam. Before Windows 95 you need 3rd party software to make a PPP connection to the Internet.

https://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/the-back-story/

It was such a widely used and distributed piece of software - magazines would ship it on a CD attached to the cover which would usually contain Netscape as well.