With a small adaptor, containing a 5V to 3.3V LDO (as I don't think the Launchpad's LDO has enough current left to drive an ESP8266), we could connect an ESP-01 (an ESP8266 based WiFi board) to the Monotron. Using the AT command firmware (https://www.espressif.com/sites/default/files/documentation/4a-esp8266_at_instruction_set_en.pdf) Monotron can easily open TCP, UDP and SSL sockets, read/write bytes on those sockets, do DNS lookups, etc.
With a small adaptor, containing a 5V to 3.3V LDO (as I don't think the Launchpad's LDO has enough current left to drive an ESP8266), we could connect an ESP-01 (an ESP8266 based WiFi board) to the Monotron. Using the AT command firmware (https://www.espressif.com/sites/default/files/documentation/4a-esp8266_at_instruction_set_en.pdf) Monotron can easily open TCP, UDP and SSL sockets, read/write bytes on those sockets, do DNS lookups, etc.