It wouldn't be until 1994 that the university
allowed access to the
public
internet directly through SLIP or PPP.
My college was very restrictive that way, too. I figured out how to get
"slirp" working because there wasn't anyway to get a working PPP or SLIP
connection for me from there. The things we did to get connected to the net
in those days...
I think I remember slirp... didn't that somewhat emulate a SLIP link
through a
shell account?
That's another thing I remember and miss from those days... your average ISP
would provide NNTP and UNIX shell accounts, as well as a few megs of space
to put up a personal web site in ~/public_html.
-Swift