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D9u on Aug 21, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask Old-School HN: What was it like pre internet?

I started my computing journey back in the days of BBS dial up porn, DOS & Windows 3.1.

Network protocols were wildly divergent. (anyone remember NetWare?)

Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was the best!

Plug & play was unheard of. DMA & IRQ conflicts whenever new devices were added to a system was the norm.

Castle Wolfenstein3D was the coolest game ever.

stray on Aug 22, 2012 [–]

> anyone remember NetWare?

I was a CNE (which means I was a badass at at NetWars)... Btw, I still think syscon was amazing.

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