Писк модема, LAN-пати и облака: как сеть научилась играть

Помните, как звучал модем при подключении? А как тянули витую пару из окна соседу, чтобы поиграть в Quake, а потом спорили, чей пинг меньше: у того, кто подключен напрямую к хабу, или у везунчика с ADSL? Сегодня это кажется древностью. Но именно в те времена, когда интернет был роскошью, а высокий пинг — неотъемлемой частью геймплея, многопользовательские игры стали настоящей лабораторией сетевых технологий. В статье проследим эволюцию сетевого гейминга: от писка модема до облачного рендеринга. И покажем, как каждая эпоха, будь то dial-up, LAN-party или GeForce NOW, формировалась не столько играми, сколько возможностями (или ограничениями) инфраструктуры.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/mclouds/articles/966052/

#игры #сетевые_технологии #сетевое_администрирование #игровой_сервер #модем #dialup #geforce_now #lan #неткод #гейминг

ah yes, before we posted pictures of food we had to simply describe it

i absolutely remember that room

Citadels attracted a mature literate crowd, a clear forerunner to modern twitter-like micro-blogging, that none the less reveled in irrelevant shitposting 😆

from a eulogy for three citadels by Michael Finley of the St. Paul Pioneer Press circa 1996?? now there's something to track down a scan of

https://lwr.wtf/citadel/Newsletters/news9604.html

so there you go, from top of the world in the early 90s, to rapid death around '96 along with the rest of the BBS scene...

as the large for-profit multi-line boards pivoted to full ISP service, the amateur sysops looked at their phone bills and began eyeballing DSL connections instead of second phone lines...

#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays

A few big names even ran Citadels

hometown hero PC Tech Inc ran a Citadel-86 before being absorbed into Zeos/Micron (and still has a Minneapolis office!)

Atari Corp ran a STadel circa 1988!

Bad Sector became Visi.com, a pivotal early Twin Cities ISP, and long since absorbed into god knows what...

#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays

@orc (hi!) famously implemented a UUCP gateway for STadel, bringing usenet groups (and email?) into CitaNet for a time, but got in to a bit of a row with Hue Jr and had left the 612 scene by the time i got online in 1994

a CitaNet overview, from December 1992

the original Test System, run by Hue Jr in Minneapolis was the beating heart of the CitaNet

i often called it as it was a good place to pick up most of the networked rooms 😀

a good ~25 nodes in MN alone

maybe half were still running in `94 and memories are shaking loose of a number of them...

#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays

there's a stash of CitaNews at https://lwr.wtf/wiki/Newsletters

Citadel history thread LETS GO!

been racking my brain trying to remember what all the networked rooms were, here's a list from an amiga board in August 1991

Citadel style BBSs may not have been that popular overall, but they maintained pockets of rabid popularity in a variety of major cities

Citadel-86 gained its own federated networking as early as 1986, (a mere few years after FidoNet began!) quickly becoming a mainstay of many Citadel BBSs

#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays

Citadel-86 v3.49-hax deployed live 🫡

has Y2K fix, removed some pauses waiting for old modems which are not necessary in emulation, and i've got it idling using HLT, which keeps it from burning CPU in VMs new and old, such as a Win95 dos window 😀

connect via ssh to bbs@haxxed.com

#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays

For the 3 people who use the dialup connection to the BBS, it should be fixed now (479-553-8122). Ports are opened at 38400 but good luck getting anything over 2400 baud on a VOIP line :). #bbs #dialup

Youtube na linha discada.

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/11/10/youtube-na-linha-discada/

#MundoRetro #conexo #dialup #PortaSerial #RS232 #YouTube

Just updated the VIC-BBS to include Xmodem uploads and downloads. There's a complementary VIC-20 terminal program called "Saturn3" that also includes Xmodem upload and download.

So now, VIC-20 users can finally do file transfers without having to rely on a friend with a C64! Keep in mind I didn't test this much, but give it a shot if you're interested.

bbs.deepskies.com:6400

https://github.com/VA3DSO/VIC-BBS

#Commodore #VIC20 #RetroComputing #BBS #BulletinBoardSystem #Xmodem #FileTransfers #Modem #DialUp #80sTech #RetroComputing

This calculation of remaining time to download gives me 56k modem vibes. (Not so) Good old times 🏴‍☠️
#56kModem #dialup

It's Been a Year Since Trump Was Elected. Democrats Still Don't Get the Internet

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/do-democrats-get-the-internet-yet/

for how many retro BBSs are out there now, maybe two of them are Citadel?

doing my part, and attempting to resurrect Citadel-86, widely used in its (and my) hometown of the Minneapolis 612 and beyond, and root of many later Citadel forks

does anyone out there remember these?

tell me your stories because they are rapidly being lost to internet decay

did you notice bbsmates is gone?

Citadel-86 is now borderline lost media, the last version is MIA along with some extra tools for database resize and the Ease config tool

does anyone have them? check those dusty floppies

#BBS #Citadel #Citadel86 #Minneapolis #retrocomputing #bbsing #dialup #dialupdays

ATDT because BBS still rocks!

#BBS
#BBSing
#BulletinBoardSystem
#Modem
#Dialup
#Hayes
#ATDT

🥱 Wow, Clay Shirky is back with a riveting tale from 2004 about how software can be, wait for it, "situated"—truly groundbreaking stuff from the days when dial-up was still a thing. 🤯 Who would've thought that the real innovation is to build software for specific contexts? Certainly not the rest of the world that's been doing it since, well, forever. 🙄
http://shirky.com/essays/situated-software/ #ClayShirky #SoftwareInnovation #SituatedSoftware #TechHistory #DialUp #HackerNews #ngated

Hackaday: Making WiFi Sound Like Dial-Up Internet. “Dial-up modems had a distinctive sound when connecting, with the glittering, screeching song becoming a familiar melody to those jumping online in the early days of the Internet. Modern digital connections don’t really have an analog to this, by virtue of being entirely digital. And yet, [Nick Bild] decided to make WiFi audible in a pleasing […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/28/hackaday-making-wifi-sound-like-dial-up-internet/

🤖🚀 Oh, the irony of using cutting-edge #technology to revisit a bleak digital past! Welcome to a time when "graphics" meant ASCII art and sysops were the #rockstars of dial-up. 📞🤯 Congrats, you've unlocked the achievement of "Peak Nerd Nostalgia!" 🏆👾
https://www.southernamis.com/ataribbsconnect #nostalgia #ASCIIart #dialup #peaknerd #HackerNews #ngated

Bello Bear Ep 43 Hell WiFi – Get the good stuff @ www.BelloBear.shop❣️

#BadWifi #McdonaldsWifi #DialUp #webcomic #fyp

Bello Bear Ep 43 Hell WiFi – Get the good stuff @ www.BelloBear.shop❣️

#BadWifi #McdonaldsWifi #DialUp #webcomic #fyp

People used to bond multiple 56k modems together to squeeze more speed from dialup. In theory each modem adds another 56 kb per second so the total speed is N times 56 kb per second with no real protocol limit. In practice it quickly becomes messy. You need one phone line per modem, your provider must support multilink PPP, and overhead plus noise cuts the speed down. Most setups only used two to eight modems before cost and complexity made it pointless. At extremes you could run hundreds or even thousands of lines, but power, routing, and line quality would collapse performance. To reach one terabit per second you would need about eighteen million modems drawing roughly one hundred megawatts of power and filling a warehouse of copper. Technically possible in math, completely absurd in reality.

#RetroTech #Phreaking #Networking #Dialup #ComputingHistory

Watching YouTube over #dialup via 12 modems is bonkers!

#SerialPort

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ259Jx8MQY