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What is your favorite dead meme? (lemmy.world)
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The older the internet gets, the more it's like a city that keeps building on top of its own ruins. What's is your favorite bit of internet archeology if memes are like artifacts and relics?

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago (8 children)

does anybody still know the old poontos video. ca. 98, fuck I'm old. that's when we had lan parties without Internet but coax 10mbit Ethernet (don't know the english name: bnc?).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    Rj45. I didn't do it often, but definitely remember packing up my PC and monitor and heading to a buddy's house and spending an hour getting me on the network and shit just not working. And then it finally worked and it was cathartic, playing on my PC with with a friend or two with almost no latency.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

    rj45 is what we have right now, the standard ethernet connector. shrugs was referring to this thing which indeed is bnc

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    I remember, when I was first networking my home computers in 1998 or whatever, someone telling me that coax with the BNC connector wiring was superior to RJ45 with twisted pair cables.

    And at that time, it might have been, somehow, but even if that were true: It wasn't hard to see into the near future and realize that twisted pair was where the tech was going, and investing in coax at that point was going to be a waste of money.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (1 child)

    BNC worked fine, but god beware you had two points of failure. Impossible to debug, because one error caused the whole line to go down. so you couldn't just check every connection until it worked.

    And I still don't want to know how many hours of my life I have wasted, because I thought Windows network explorer wasn't a buggy mess.

    "I can ping your PC but don't see it in the network explorer, might be something wrong. time for another round of "how fast can win98 be reinstalled" :D

    BNC didn't require a switch or hub though

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    10base2, or ThinNet, were the English names of that kind of networking. We had a mix of that and 10baseT (rj45) when I was first in college. 10baseT was significantly better, in that fewer machines had to physical share the same bus wires.

    I'm not sure what video you're referring to, though.

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