I lived through those days, and you're looking back with rose colored glasses. Most servers didn't have an admin online most of the time, so hacking was still a

I lived through those days, and you're looking back with rose colored glasses. Most servers didn't have an admin online most of the time, so hacking was still a major annoyance if you didn't have something like VAC. I do miss the quirky nature of private servers, custom maps and game mods, and all of that, but cheating was a big problem back then too.