I remember before the word ‘internet’ existed. I remember when people were happy enough conducting their own business on their own computer. Alone.
I’m sure the mere idea shatters your soul.
That’s the world we grew up in. A lab of Apple IIs, with no network connection (not even to each other!). and all we had was 5.25” floppies. The horror!
I remember my first data cable. I plugged two computers directly into each other, and it was like magic; didn’t even need a floppy disk to transfer data! Then the LAN games…
Nowadays most games on Steam will actually shit themselves if you try to connect to a local IP address. No, I don’t want to use the online cloud server; let me peer to peer or local host, please.
I played Warcraft 2 with a 14.4 modem dialing directly to my friend’s modem across town in 1996.
It was novel and kinda fun to tell my mom what we were doing, but it was so slow that we never bothered again. The taste led to wanting to go nuts when broadband hit, whcih coincided with going to college and getting on a T1 line.
Right before Napster killed all college network speeds.
Look, I’m not going to say I like reading microfiche but things started going to shit when we stopped microfiching things and started depending on magnets to remember for us.
I remember before the word ‘internet’ existed. I remember when people were happy enough conducting their own business on their own computer. Alone.
I’m sure the mere idea shatters your soul.
That’s the world we grew up in. A lab of Apple IIs, with no network connection (not even to each other!). and all we had was 5.25” floppies. The horror!
AST Research 286 12Mhz. MS-DOS. Two phone line BBS I ran for a summer--Tiger in the Dark. That was my introduction to connected computing.
What was that? 90? 91? AST With a 286/SX 12.5MHz on a maybe 2800 baud modem? Running double? Tiger BBS? (Hee!) oh my God, those were the days…
A little taste of back then
Mad respek, buddy
I remember my first data cable. I plugged two computers directly into each other, and it was like magic; didn’t even need a floppy disk to transfer data! Then the LAN games…
Nowadays most games on Steam will actually shit themselves if you try to connect to a local IP address. No, I don’t want to use the online cloud server; let me peer to peer or local host, please.
I played Warcraft 2 with a 14.4 modem dialing directly to my friend’s modem across town in 1996.
It was novel and kinda fun to tell my mom what we were doing, but it was so slow that we never bothered again. The taste led to wanting to go nuts when broadband hit, whcih coincided with going to college and getting on a T1 line.
Right before Napster killed all college network speeds.
Steam itself is cool in the way it’ll let you use the lan to transfer files between pcs.
“C’mon let’s plug in and do a 6x2 comp-stomp on StarCraft!”
(Edit: changed the ratio, because if I recall Starcraft maxed at 8 players lol)
Look, I’m not going to say I like reading microfiche but things started going to shit when we stopped microfiching things and started depending on magnets to remember for us.
I have a two inch floppy but it’s thick.
2 inches long 12 inches thick, just the way the ladies like it.
Like a cheese wheel. You might not touch bottom, but you’ll stretch out the sides.