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Why would you subject yourself to that? Just have them come over and help you carry your heavy tower and even heavier CRT to LAN at their house, even if it’s a
by exhaze 5y ago
Why would you subject yourself to that? Just have them come over and help you carry your heavy tower and even heavier CRT to LAN at their house, even if it’s a mile away (me and friends literally did this in Fremont, CA - though I believe it might have been a bit less than a mile)
- derwiki 5y agoI hosted a LAN party for my friends because I wanted to practice setting up a small network. It’s funny to think that was once semi-challenging.
- hkmurakami 5y agoNot funny. Major PTSD coming back!!!
- Fuzzwah 5y agoThe pain inflicted when someone had to leave the LAN and the BNC chain had to be broken and reconfigured.... Or... Someone getting totally owned in Doom cracking it and disconnecting a terminator. Great times.
- tmp538394722 5y agoThe “DHCP server” for us was a sheet of paper where you’d write down the IP you were going to ifconfig.
- Datagenerator 5y agoWingate memories coming back
- hkmurakami 5y agoBut then it would take 4 hours to figure out Windows networking in your computer. (Been there done that)
- hunter-gatherer 5y agoYeah, my parents refused to buy a second line so this is what we did.
- lacker 5y agoToo hard to get a ride on a random weekday night before any of us could drive :D