I used to play Doom with 2 other friends on the same keyboard. One moving, one firing and one (the most bored) opening doors and activating buttons.
OG multiplayer Doom.
Was the screen green?
two words, LAN party.
No shit. Everyone brings over their computer. For me my first network was the lan party net. It was 10base 2. Invariably at least one time a meet someone would kick a coax cable loose and we would lose the whole network. Thinking about it we didn’t have the name lan party when we first started having them. We called it playing warcraft 2.
We used those coax cables at school. Each row had a terminator. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it elsewhere.
No, cause I was the friend with the computer. My dad worked in computers, so we had a computer in the eighties and internet in (I think) 1995. We got cable internet really early too, and my first username was “guywithcable”.
Unknowingly, son of u/fatpipe & u/maxbaud
Modem Wars
First “online” game I played (over 300 buad modem)
I’m only just enough old for the Wii lmao
That’s an abnormal amount
you’re the man now dog
That time when you had to wait for the image to load line by line only to realize, her boobs where covered, and the utter disappointed of the image either being cropped or she was wearing pants.
everybody coming over to watch the new smosh video
My first hands-on experience with the Internet was at a friend’s house in the early 90s in 4th or 5th grade. I’d seen it before on various classroom computers but I never got a chance to use it because the teachers all seemed to agree on putting the unstable desk-throwing kids in front of them for the school day to keep them distracted.
miss when we gathered to get into the internet instead of having to quit it alone.
Ah, the good ol’ days, when my friend’s computer would get jacked up from Bonzai Buddy because she thought it was too cute.
I thought it was weird and didn’t care for it, so I never put it on my family’s computer. After it was discovered to be spyware, I felt vindicated.
Yeah my house was one of the ones with Computer
I remember going to my friend Ray’s house who had a 386 with a ten meg hard drive and dual three and five inch floppy drives. They paid $2,500 for it at the time. We used to visit a porn site called Ed and Eddies? Then we would play a tank battle game. He had a blistering 300 baud modem.
Weird, my 286 had a 2400 baud modem
Dude that tank game brings back memories. The old 3D vector graphics tank game right?
The one with just the green lines? If so, Battle Zone, fucking classic.
Yeah that’s the one! Just a black screen, green lines, and simple shapes
skipping around to various local BBS’ downloading new shareware and trying it out into the wee hours of the night.
I recall there was this old DOS vector graphics looking helicopter game that was fucking impossible because it was realistic i guess and oh the joy we had taking turns and mocking each other as we crashed over and over over and over
I remember letting my brother’s friend use my computer and he reprogrammed my DOS boot sequence to play a (very simple) bleepy version of the teenage mutant ninja turtles theme song & then type out “TURTLE POWER” on the DOS prompt.
what a legend!
Using your daily moves in Tradewars 2002…
