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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by jcims on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @02:17AM (#27034555)
Right about that exact same time I commandeered an entire lab (30-40?) of SGI Indigo 2's at Ohio State to do distributed raytracing. Wasn't nearly as educational or diplomatic but I did have fun with it until I got shut down for essentially using twice the storage in my home directory as the entire rest of the class. Between that, usenet (of course) and trolling cuseeme reflectors all over the world from the odd smelling Mac lab, I didn't get much studying done.

Good times.

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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by nonbirithm on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @03:52PM (#27042098)
I hadn't heard of CU-SeeMe before. It's videoconferencing software from 1992 (!), around the time the Web had just barely been formed.

There seems to be a lot of interesting history surrounding it: https://sattlers.org/mickey/CU-SeeMe/internetTVwithCUSeeMe/c...

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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by jcims on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @08:58PM (#27044839)
It was pretty awesome. I commuted to school and my 2400 baud modem wouldn’t cut it. But lots of students would run clients or ‘reflectors’ from their dorm rooms and i would stay in the labs until the wee hours just hanging out. I never got into MUDs but ‘talkers’ were similar in concept. Just themed text chat. I would hang out on one called ‘Oceanhome’ and make dumb faces on cuseeme. It felt like another universe

People weren’t that much different na back then then they are today.

This provides a per good impression of what it was like. This was 30 years ago.

https://youtu.be/PC33Y4Jbiys

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Re:Back in 1993, I was taking a number theory class by gdubs on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:30PM (#27045502)
30-40 Indigo2’s must have be one expensive lab.
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