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.
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)