On 23 Apr 2022, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...
Oh, the days we spent in the early '90s. The office would close around 5pm, we'd place a 6 way conference call on the telephones and jump into
a DooM cooperative deathmatch. I'd usually bow out around 8pm, others would keep playing until I don't know when.
We did something similar at the local computer shop I worked at out of high school. One of the ISPs in our area used our shop as a point of presence for DSL connections in the area, so they had a high speed connection coming to our shop which they let us use (even gave us a small block of static IPs). I can't recall now if it was several T1s or a T3 coming to the office, but it was fast enough to power several 5Mb DSL connections in the area.
Our office hours were 9am to 5pm, after five we'd lock the door and switch on an Unreal Tournament server (connected to that high speed connection) and play several games, usually to 8 or 9pm. It was neat to see people connecting to our server from all over. We mostly did capture the flag games if I remember correctly.
Next door to us was a bar & grill and the wait staff knew to call and ask if we wanted to order anything, even bringing over free refills on pop (soda).
Jay
... One was more wise than the other.
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