Same with LAN parties. I was thrilled to buy my first network card, and a tee connector.
Even the fact that the first half of the day was mostly wasted with trying to get IPX and NetBEUI to work and TCP and UDP, and promising each other that we would not change anything until the next LAN party, and of course next time nothing worked either at first try. But it was fun nonetheless.
(The second half of the first day was obviously swapping all those music and video files)
The joy of discovering hours later why not everybody could "see" everybody on the network: ipx frame type, and different default values, 802.2, 802.3, pick one.
You couldn't Google that. Because there was no Google, and you were stuck in a basement.
Same with LAN parties. I was thrilled to buy my first network card, and a tee connector.
Even the fact that the first half of the day was mostly wasted with trying to get IPX and NetBEUI to work and TCP and UDP, and promising each other that we would not change anything until the next LAN party, and of course next time nothing worked either at first try. But it was fun nonetheless.
(The second half of the first day was obviously swapping all those music and video files)