is run a signal out a com port telling a tranceiver what frequencies to use. And take the I/O thru the sound ports, converting the audio signals into data.
Now, if that data is for surfing, then you'd need a GUI OS that supports Mozilla. But many of us remember being online with DOS at a BBS, and with the data rate nowadays, seems like COMMO would still download .gif or .jpg, and that you could shell out to look at the images, or listen to sound files. If menus required me to press a key to navigate a presentation, I'd consider that a convenience. I can touch type. But in any case, you could still us DOS as a portal that was too stupid to be crashed by sabotage software. And rather than multitask, use, as the 70$ example showed, another piece of hardware. Hardware is cheap enough. You can devote your desktop to a multimedia presentation tool if you want, but not have any failure of that system break down all communications. You could still do email thru the DOS portal to ask for help. And if you have a problem with your service provider, there is nothing to prevent you from having another antenna aimed at a neighbor, or any other connection point. The rapid expansion of the internet has resulted in lots of incompetent people being hired. Which is why all of the ISPs that are available to me have server crashes so often, dropped carriers, or severed feeds. Other rural users report the same to me.
