shell account
Slirp, a free software application similar to The Internet Adapter The Big Electric Cat was a public access computer system in New York City in the late 1980s, known on Usenet as node dasys1. The Internet Adapter, a graphical application front end for internet access using shell accounts allowing TCP/IP-based applications such as Netscape to run over the shell account. The WELL, best known for its Internet forums, but also provides email, shell accounts, and web pages. https://source.unsplash.com/featured/?shell-account#.png