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I have fond memories of these days (lemmy.world)
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[–] 29 points 6 months ago* (12 children)

Diablo 2 required OVER 1GB of hard drive space to install and 3 CDs. Computer game install sizes are getting out of control.

N64 with 4 controllers and Forsaken while getting a sweet sweet 15 frames per second of motion sickness-inducing awesomeness.

LAN party just to play the Unreal Tournament demo.

Discovering you could use 3333333333333333333 as the CD key for Starcraft.

Heroes of Might and Magic hotseat multiplayer games taking all weekend.

xvid movies that would fit on a CD-R

"Have you guys heard of this broadband thing?"

Monthly nerd conclave to install Linux from the latest Linux Magazine CD. Mandrake has this new KDE 1.0 thing, looks neat.

Magic: The Gathering - Coat of Arms is dumb why does he have 2 of them AND Slivers??!

WAAAY before that: MUDs via BBS (and later Telnet/zMUD 5.55)

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    We ran a 2-node bbs out of our house.

    For those too young to know what that means:

    We had 2 computers networked to each other running the bulletin board - each with a separate dedicated phone line. Each line had call forwarding set up to the other, so users could dial either number, and if one of the nodes was available they could log in. And the real magic was that 2 users could actually live chat instead of just leaving messages. You haven't lived until you've played multiplayer TradeWars or LORD.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I was restricted from dial-up use at home until after 9PM. We did eventually get a 2nd line and, way later, a 1Mb ADSL connection.

    So we, as TAs in the computer lab, 'broke' a PC and put it in the wiring closet. It was actually just running Linux (the teacher new but looked the other way) so we could SSH in get on IRC and queue on FTP downloads (10Mb, so fast!) of pirated music/movies to later burn/sell on CDs. The computer lab sold blanks for $1/ea, but we figured out really quick that a spool of 100 was about $40 at Circuit City.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    You haven't lived until you've played multiplayer TradeWars or LORD.

    Funny enough with how ridiculously busy everybody is anymore, I've been really interested in researching asynchronous multiplayer game concepts.

    Like stuff that's engaging enough to leave you thinking about it between turns, but doesn't require your constant attention. Stuff to play at work, basically. Lol

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    xvid movies that would fit on a CD-R

    Doom9.org

    Dvd-decrypter

    GordianKnot

    WAAAY before that: MUDs via BBS (and later Telnet/zMUD 5.55)

    That pirates game on early Facebook gave strong BBS/MUD vibes, back before FB became obvious cancer.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    A dvd with crouching tiger hidden dragon and gossip girl on the cover, but it's actually 8 Indian movies

    Bootleg karaoke machine with Eason Chan's greatest hits and Frank Sinatra's I Did It My Way featuring a music video of two people holding hands on Causeway Bay.

    vcd's from the place around the corner, the one with the fat black cd case that had every title in alphabetical order

    A dragon ball vhs tape dubbed in cantonese that includes the first half of a random episode of Journey to the West

    Guess where I grew up

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    The MUD I used to play is still a better game than almost everything else I've ever played. That being said all MUDs MUSHES and MOOs were not the same lol.

    Ahh MUDconnector.com

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    I cannot for the life of me remember what our MUDD was, but I still remember our local BBS because it was called the Forbidden Playground. It was not some weird sex thing, just your normal early 90s BBS but that didn't stop my mother from losing her mind when she saw the ASCII title banner though.

    The first picture I downloaded was a monochrome Batman logo bmp. A few years later someone found a 16 color one of Jenny McCarthy topless from Playboy and spent all night downloading it. We all had to stop by his house on the walk to school to check it out.

    Edit It was MajorMud. I found a relatively recent article where a guy researched the BBS some.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Edit It was MajorMud. I found a relatively recent article where a guy researched the BBS some.

    That was my first one too! They only allowed so many commands per day (100?) unless you paid $15/mo

    Later I found the PvP MUDs and ended up playing a custom Godwars variant (Chaosium/Static Chaos) for years. I still know some of the people that I met in that game.

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