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We had typing as a class, oriented toward business typing proficiency, words per minute, that kind of thing. This was running on PCs with DOS running WordPerfect 5.1
They were all running some network software (netware) so the teacher could see screens and things. There wasn't a school wide network at the time, but I remember finding out how to send messages that would pop up on the bottom line of the screen of one or all the computers. .