Five years ago today, I was dialed into MOREnet, using that to telnet into a free ISP, where I had ftp’ed a 4.3 meg ZIP archive into /tmp and began rz’ing it onto my Amiga 500 at 9600 bits per second. I then took that archive, split it up into several 720k archives, and using sneakernet I took the files over to my fathers 486DX4/100. I reassembled the files there, unzipped them, and slowly began to realize that qtest was going to be a whole lotof fun… Of course, the fun didn’t really start until I took the game to CCM and we played our first network game… qtest became Quake, and the rest is history… qtest was also instrumental in meeting Chris, as girls are always impressed by kicking the living shit out of them in video games. Too bad she eventually got better than me. :)
I remember playing Wolfenstein 3D on the tandys at work, when i was a sales droid at Radial Shaft. hehe. (that puts it into perspective about when it was… hehe)
I got Wolfenstein via 2400bps modem dialing into some BBS in TX.
I remember paying $5 to download the shareware episode of Wolfenstein from Prodigy.. I can’t remember exactly how they got away with charging for shareware, or why I fell for it.