• Zink@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    There was no better internet than going to college in the late '90s. You go from a 56Kbps modem with hundreds of milliseconds of latency being a GOOD setup, to being directly on a 10Mbps LAN with everybody else in your class. It was right before Napster started and people were sharing entire discographies of MP3s via network file share from their own machines.

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      2 days ago

      Installing Quake in the file share every morning 'cos it would get wiped at night.
      Grades weren’t that good that year.

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      2 days ago

      Hell yeah. I had OG Xbox live at my postgrad residence. At one point, my flatmate and I were ranked 6 in the world for doubles Top Spin. What a time.

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      3 days ago

      Had the same experience. You could share tlyour collection, but it had to be password protected. But you also put a text note named password.txr in the parent directory and you in. If you shared without protection, you’d get your network privileges suspended.