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What was wrong with MUDers? I resemble that statement, but I don't remember SLiRP. Does anyone else on HN remember Demon Internet, potentially fondly, from the
by nixgeek 7y ago
What was wrong with MUDers? I resemble that statement, but I don't remember SLiRP. Does anyone else on HN remember Demon Internet, potentially fondly, from the 1990s and prior to the acquisition by Thus? I just noticed that brand was terminated by Vodafone in January, which is sad, they were a super clueful provider and helped out EFnet, IRCnet and QuakeNet with servers back in the day, plus were a jolly good dial-up provider for UK customers.
- unixhero 7y agoirc.demon.co.uk was my go-to efnet server. It was perceived as "strong" and not prone to EFNET- network splits causing you to lose control of your channels. Back in 1995-1996.
- chrissnell 7y agoNothing inherently, but as ISP customers in the 1990s, they were terrible. They tended to spend extremely long periods online, which screwed up the economics of dialup hosting, which was priced for typical residential users (a couple of hours of use a day). We ended up adding ToS clauses to put a stop to them. The worst of our offenders was a couple—-a husband and a wife—-who both spent nearly all day on MUDs. One of our employees knew them and told me that they lived in a trailer in squalor. Their kid ended up getting taken away from them by Child Protective Services because of neglect. It was a really bad situation and colored my opinion of hard-core gamers.