Talking about Lan uplinks, in the early 2010’s I had the joy of working with a 20gb uplink at a small university LAN (the sysadmin got a good amount of free pizza and beers for that one). I spent a large amount of my savings on a 10gb NIC only to find out my hard drive couldn’t keep up lol.
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Zworf@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Haha this is literally how we used to deal with this at CampZone, a huge LAN party, back in the mid-2000s.
Inktvip@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Zworf@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Wow…
I remember in 1993 my uni had no uplink. It was UUCP only (so just polled mail). In 1994 we got an uplink which was 256kbit shared between all sites. Luckily it came in to our facility first (the IT/Tech branch) and was cascaded further so we basically used it all 😜
Inktvip@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Guess I’m a bit too young for that still lol. We got a pair of ISDN2 lines in 1994 (so technically also 256k lol) at home, but I was too young to remember that. With cable internet coming in 97, that was technically still slower than bonded isdn at the very start.
In a way I was very privileged growing up when it came to Internet. My dad’s company at the time paid good money to get all the latest (often testing phase) stuff to his house in return for being available 24/7.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Same as The Party in Aars, Denmark, in the 90s. Every table had a sheet. Cross out the IP you picked.
Zworf@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Oh yeah The Party was another big one. Probably gone by now too?
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Yeah it has. The demo aspect became smaller and smaller and with the advent of internet penetration even the copy side of it dissipated. It wasn’t the same at the end tbh
Still, fond memories of coding, sleeping under the tables, eating junk.
Zworf@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Yeah me too. Drinking way way way too much. Playing games in the middle of the night. Seeing weird stuff in other tents like a fullblown orgy. Fun competitions. I really miss it.