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Re:Doom the Way It Was Meant to Be Played – v1.1 Multi-Monitor by flatiron on Saturday February 18, 2023 @08:26PM (#34853111)
Fun fact about doom IPX is 1.0 absolutely spammed the heck out of the network finding peers. Most colleges had big problems days after its release because doom was DDOSing the network. They quickly patched it but patching wasn’t as easy as it is now.
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Re:Doom the Way It Was Meant to Be Played – v1.1 Multi-Monitor by quartz on Saturday February 18, 2023 @10:09PM (#34853876)
Funny, that's actually how Jay Cotton (co-creator of Kali) learned about Doom and what led him to start exploring the network side of gaming.

There's a decent interview with him that relays the story: https://episodiccontentmag.com/2016/08/26/kali1/

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