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HAVE YOU EVEN EVER PLAYED DOOM! ON A MODEM?

[–] • 2 pts

Fuck yeah, AOL dial up based deathmatches.

Great times.

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I have. The first doom used all broadcast packets, and we would bring the corporate network down thankfully they still had a 16M token ring network up and running, so we started hopping on that instead of the 10B/T everyone else was on. The 19-33k dialup wasn't the best - I had a home isdn line installed so my latency went to 2 ms when Quake came out.

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I used to play Quake with a modem. Even got 150ms pings because the quake server was on my local ISP's servers.

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I moved just so I could have DSL (which was rare at the time) and run a Quake server. Also bought an AMD Athlon when they first came out to build my Quake server. LAN parties FTW.

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Quake demo was the shit. Full 3-D. That fucking ogre with a chainsaw hand you could lob grenades at. Then head down the stairwell to the left.

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Ah... walking around the office and taking the trackball out of the mouse on peoples' desks. Good times, good times.

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You had to clean all the fingernail style grit off the track wheels but the kids would all steal the balls in class so they would seal the mice shut and let them be dirty and skippy. I straight up brought my own laser mouse to school I got so fucking sick of it.

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When I built my P3 box, there was one item I wish I could have afforded, but have NEVER seen again. It went into a CD rom slot. It has an audio mixer and volume control on the front, along with a radio tuner all of which played through the computers speakers. It was one of the coolest pieces of hardware I have ever seen for a computer, and I never saw it again after that computer show

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Ugh, feels like 3000 years...pulling those balls out of mice and cleaning the funk off them

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I stick use a wireless track ball. Only mouse that legitimately lived from that age. It's best for laptops because it truly can be used anywhere, with zero space needed for movement.

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I didn't know they still made them. Remember the giant trackball some computers had? Some arcade games had them and you'd spaz trying to spin the ball fast enough to move your character.

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Centipede bitches!

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I have one attached to my keyboard right now. They made it upside-down though, the mouse buttons are underneath the ball instead of over it so it is a bit awkward so I use a mouse too.

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I started going down the wrong path by playing leisure suit Larry in 3rd grade

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I remember scavenging that paper at recycling stores around y2k for my office’s accounting printer. We were so far behind, lol.

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I was there the day the strength of Winamp failed....

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Yo I still use winamp 2.5.

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But one day you shall sail into the West.

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Back in the 80s when I was a graphic designer I remember my boss coming in with all these ads with an apple for a logo.

One time I put together a manual for an early processor (was a big deal back then) and occasionally it would get so confusing (figuring out what goes where...I was MANUALLY pasting this 'user guide' up) that I would just say, forget it I'll just leave this little section out.

Is that as bad, or worse, than leaving the shopping cart misplaced?

If so then I'm sorry, you feel me?

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I don't get it....

Is something wrong with my desk top??

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