Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry...
by dredmorbius on Sunday May 30, 2021 @04:49PM
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Business, education, research, and defence users were finding 3 Mbps coax revolutionary for decades before LAN parties were a thing.
Internet and Ethernet were useful immediately.
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/the-birth-and-ri...
Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry...
by conradfr on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:52PM
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The joy of discovering hours later why not everybody could "see" everybody on the network: ipx frame type, and different default values, 802.2, 802.3, pick one.
You couldn't Google that. Because there was no Google, and you were stuck in a basement.
Fun and exciting times :)
Re:It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cry...
by dopidopHN on Sunday May 30, 2021 @06:44PM
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I remember lobbying my friends to pool money so we can buy a router and use RJ45.
Living on the edge !
My parents still have fond memory of seing skinny teenager bringing computers on well barrel in their basement to play video game.
They were suspicious at first. But then they concluded they we were indeed playing video game.
Same with LAN parties. I was thrilled to buy my first network card, and a tee connector.
Even the fact that the first half of the day was mostly wasted with trying to get IPX and NetBEUI to work and TCP and UDP, and promising each other that we would not change anything until the next LAN party, and of course next time nothing worked either at first try. But it was fun nonetheless.
(The second half of the first day was obviously swapping all those music and video files)