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    [–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    I remember getting a copy of linux from my friends at a local LAN party (though it was tokenring party for us) around ‘96. 2 floppy disks. I’m 99% sure it was slackware.

    [–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 3 days ago

    I told you it's not a LAN party, it's a TokenRing party!

    [–] pageflight@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

    Hah, yeah I got a Debian floppy and then tried to install packages over DSL. Somehow it didn't immediately kill my interest in Linux, eventually ran OpenBSD as my server for a while.

    [–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 3 days ago

    I started with floppies too, when I bought my copy of Conectiva Linux 3.0. It came with a hefty manual that was instrumental for a newbie like me.

    [–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Shit, what games could be played on token ring?

    [–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Token Ring is a network protocol where a token—a small data packet—circulates around a ring topology, allowing only the device holding the token to transmit data, thus avoiding collisions. We played Doom and Quake.

    [–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

    I know what it is, and I played both those on lan, but my older bro set it up so I guess I just don't remember. Fucking crazy that shit could work fast enough.

    I don't remember, what was the lag like for token ring? Lan just feels like it should be 100 ping or less

    [–] Colloidal@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

    Not really. It was a local network, and sure the latency increased linearly with the number of nodes, but for a small LAN party it would be quite serviceable.

    [–] Stupidmanager@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

    Yeah, sorry. Nerded out there for a sec on description. I don’t remember the lag that much, doom was ok. I think we all upgraded to 10Base-T ethernet (you remember the bnc stuff) after playing quake and host tended to have the gaming advantage. A few of us worked at a pc repair shop, so we could source (aka borrow) the parts if we couldn’t afford to buy them.

    A few laters Quake world came out, someone finally popped for a hub and we all had 100mbit cards installed. But around then, we got @HOME in my neighborhood and gamespy was my new friend. I hated hauling my whole setup once a month after a year or so.

    [–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 3 days ago

    doom's netcode is weird as well, all the clients run in perfect lock-step. seems like it would be weird on non-duplex networks.