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Anon is a nostalgic gamer (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Sparkega@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Gamespy back in the day. Could make core friends and join the same servers across games.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Before that...QuakeSpy.

Quake kicked ass and defined my childhood and my adulthood. I was like 10 when that game came out.

I wanted to play that game so bad but my dad was hogging the phone line all the time!

So...I did some reading online. Found out how to build a simple network. Went to the computer fair and got some network cards that did 10BaseT or 10Base2. Went to RadioShack and got some coax, bnc ends, and terminators. Installed WinRoute on my dad's computer. Set it up to share his internet so we could both be online. Set it up so his computer would automatically dial when I wanted internet if he wasn't online yet.

Nearly 30 years later and now I'm a Network Architect.