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I can see why it died off. There were preciously few ways to have LAN play over a distance without weird connection issues. At some point I recall that Hamachi
by contravariant 4y ago
I can see why it died off. There were preciously few ways to have LAN play over a distance without weird connection issues. At some point I recall that Hamachi did work fairly well, but that meant you still had to rely on a third party in the end.
Even now it's only somewhat doable to do it without relying on 3rd parties by using wireguard. So I can see why relying on a third party became the default.
- Thlom 4y agoI remember back in the 90’s and early 00’s my cousin and his neighbors had a neighborhood LAN going. They had stretched I believe Ethernet cables across the street and from house to house. It might actually have been coax cables in a ring network of some sorts. Anyway. They had an IRC server going and shared files and played games. Seemed like good times.