One way that was used was encoding information in images on web pages. See steganography.
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OT - Wondering about spam
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See the Internet standard RFC1149. It doesn't make it faster, but it solves the reliability problem.
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Notice the date it was released. April 1st. Other "standards" have been released on this date. It used to be a USENET tradition. For instance, we used to announce when new sites got connected to USENET for the purposes of exchanging news. (Not all sites had a IP connection. Some used dialup protocols.) In fact, the only way to get a direct connection to the ARPAnet was to be a vendor to the US government. So in 1984, we saw this announcement:
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