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I had totally forgotten about this... the pure hell of making LAN stuff work across different versions of windows, with weird routers that wouldn't work, with d
by Exuma 4y ago
I had totally forgotten about this... the pure hell of making LAN stuff work across different versions of windows, with weird routers that wouldn't work, with different network cards, and spending literally HOURS trying to get it to work. These days, it feels much more rare that if you're trying to do something for hours that you will actually succeed, but back then spending 3-4 hours trying to get it working there was still a lot of hope, because you hadn't tried every combination of every single setting/cable yet.
- bombcar 4y agoI still remember having to add SPX/IPX to machines to run some game - maybe StarCraft.
- boredemployee 4y agoToday I really have some nostalgic feeling about it. when you look back and remember the effort you put to get shit done, the reward and joy were amazing.
- rightbyte 4y agoThere is this spicy touch of having to tug your PC to a LAN party or go rent a movie that makes you enjoy it more. One way to emulate that nowadays is to pay exhortative cinema prices and not have the itch to surf on your phone due to sink cost fallacy.
- rightbyte 4y agoYe ... enumerating the options. I had the same experience guessing options everywhere until it worked. I wonder if that was because I was a kid or it was how you did things back then?