Doom as a tool for system administration (1999)

Re:Doom as a tool for system administration (1999) by rcarmo on Saturday March 03, 2018 @03:41AM (#16508478)

Same here. It was the dawn of the dial-up age, and we were loading funky IPX device drivers and stringing coax to play this between apartments...

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Re:Doom as a tool for system administration (1999) by ClassyJacket on Saturday March 03, 2018 @10:14AM (#16509556)

I'm pretty sure 1999 was towards the end of the dialup age, even if that's a bit of a nitpick.

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Re:Doom as a tool for system administration (1999) by hvs on Saturday March 03, 2018 @09:01AM (#16509276)

Small nitpick: this was not the dawn of the dial-up age. This was the end of 1999. I had been dialing up for at least 5 years at this point and I'm sure there where many who had it before me.

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Re:Doom as a tool for system administration (1999) by ISL on Saturday March 03, 2018 @09:15AM (#16509329)

I'm a child of the early eighties. I cannot recall a time that there was not a functioning 1200 baud (or faster) modem in our house.

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Re:Doom as a tool for system administration (1999) by karmakaze on Sunday March 04, 2018 @12:00PM (#16515369)

Must have been nice. In '82 I got a third-party 600 baud (nonstandard, can't recall the brand) modem which was better than 300 and Atari hadn't come out with a 1200 yet.

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Re:Doom as a tool for system administration (1999) by rcarmo on Saturday March 03, 2018 @10:58AM (#16509804)

I got my first modem (without direct Internet access, only BIX and a Vax at college) in 1992.

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Re:Doom as a tool for system administration (1999) by rcarmo on Saturday March 03, 2018 @10:57AM (#16509792)

Depends. On 1999 I joined my second ISP, and in Portugal that's when we hit the mainstream.

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Re:Doom as a tool for system administration (1999) by snowball2 on Saturday March 03, 2018 @08:50AM (#16509242)

Yeah, me too :-)

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