Yeah, like we're supposed to believe you never snuck a DOOM install onto the company network and played it at work...
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Allan Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Doom stands out to me as a game that changed the computer hardware industry. > Prior it being released, network cards were expensive and generally only > used for offices, universities etc. When Doom came out though, the appeal of > being able to network multiple computers together to play with/against each > other led to a lot of people buying network cards for home use. Increased > demand led to increased supply and the cost of networks cards dropping > significantly. Eventually network adaptors came standard on any PC > motherboard. > > Allan > -- Nick A "You know what I wish? I wish that all the scum of the world had but a single throat, and I had my hands about it..." Rorschach, 1975 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759 "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them." Bill Vaughan "The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." Plato
