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Tribes 2 holds a special place in that they effectively built a proto-internet inside the game client. It shipped with user-accounts, IRC (chat), newsgroups (f
by ramses0 3y ago
Tribes 2 holds a special place in that they effectively built a proto-internet inside the game client.
It shipped with user-accounts, IRC (chat), newsgroups (forums), email (direct messages), LDAP (groups/clans/tribes), integrated voice, basically all the components of the internet except calendaring, and if you call CD-Keys like client certs... we'll, just impressive for any game and especially a game of the 2002 era.