Quake2 and the 12 port Dlink Hub.
Once upon a time there was an intrepid group of young men who shared a love of playing early fps games & would regularly go round to their mates house (who happened to have a rare case of "broadbanditis") carting all of their beige boxes, metres of (then) expensive cat5 cables and heaps of big ole heavy CRT monitors in order to play said blocky fps's.

The hero of our story came across a dlink hub @ a car-park market for a couple of bucks.
Oh. Happy days.
Many gamers all playing off the same (dos-box) server playing both inter and intra net games. With a broadcast rather than local IP. Wheeeee!

It was good. Copious amounts of alcohol and "victuals" were consumed. Much chuff was puffed.
We were happy.

& then some of us who had girlfriends got married and those who stayed single got into pr0n. (I guess).

We occasionally played BF2 (& later on 2142) on the net as a squad all playing in the same room just for a laff many years later but it just didn't have the same kind of magic.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 26 Mar 2012, 10:30, 2 replies)

Nerd.
(username failed moderation, Mon 26 Mar 2012, 11:02, closed)

Why.
tlho' SoH.

EDIT: The really cool thing is I can vividly remember my 5 yo. daughter shouting at me and the missus "You're all NERDS!!!!!!!" in sheer frustration about something whilst having a tanty. We laughed.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 26 Mar 2012, 11:13, closed)

I'm hoping you mean "victuals" were consumed
...or are you all zombies?
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 26 Mar 2012, 13:45, closed)

What can I say
teenagers playing quake.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 26 Mar 2012, 19:13, closed)