my first modem was a 28.8K I used it mostly to play this g…
my first modem was a 28.8K
I used it mostly to play this game: https://realmserver.com/
turn based combat. 2.5 Dimensions.
Players would hold "drops" at their houses. where they would drop items as a giveaway for others to pick up.
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I can't believe I just found someone that played the realm on twetch. I didn't have any choice other than liking and commenting.
yes! My name was SOLKnight, i was a level 1k adventurer. A few of my friends and I played the reboot a couple of years ago. Got a few fun hours in.
^ this made bandwidth matter on a game that effectively eliminated bandwidth from combat by going turn-based
There was no built in trading system. If you wanted to sell a sword for gold, you had to hand over the sword to the buyer and hope that he handed you the gold
because of this, a market for trusted middle-men formed
design flaw or feature?
At 14ish I downloaded software on my PC that would feed me banner ads and pay me $25/month. Then I found an app online that would hide the banner ad for me.
"Nas is Like" came out in 1999 and was my first mp3 download. I think I downloaded it right off someone's website.
My friend burned mp3's onto tape cassettes and sold them at school. Cuz we were poor and didn't have CD players
one day my computer broke. something about "GURU" taking it over. My sister and I still laugh about this
I always learned just enough to get by. Just In Time computer repair lmao.
Learned how to build a PC from my friend and then again in a freshman highschool class. The teach that I had also taught compsci, so I took that sophomore year and learned some C++
This class was nuts. One kid (who now works at NFLX) knew a lot about phones cuz his dad worked at verizon. We would prank the bowling alley while in class. Then when they bowling alley got mad at him, he shut down their phone lines (somehow) for an hour
next, the same kid (Jason) somehow streamed porn on the projector in class, but laid an ASCII filter over it. Our teach was really confused, then laughed, then screamed OH GOD ARE THEY IN AN ELEVATOR? lmao
next, *someone* deleted an SQL server and filled it with nintendo ROMS. we spent most of class playing battletoads.
All while our teacher tried building some penguin life simulator. We were into it til he tried writing some code on the board and ended up writing Test = pen(is)
"Testicles, penis" for those of you who dont live in the gutter
eventually, the class got in trouble for the server deletion. it had all of the teachers payrolls on it or something. So cops came to school and interrogated us all 1 on 1. One kid was so freaked he puked all over the lockers
HA, great story. We got in trouble for "hacking" when we switched monitor cables around and the teacher didn't know WTF was happening, among other things.