alt Hacker NewsI saw that NET indicator plenty when playing on 56k back in the day. Funny to see it written about as some curious historical artifact.
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jaffa2 • today at 6:07 PM
Yeah. Looks like an ethernet jack. True, buts its a modem jack (rj11 maybe?)
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system2 • today at 7:11 PM
You can still see it while playing in 2025, for Quake 2 at least, on Tastypleen servers in the U.S. The servers crash for some reason. Or if you connect to Chinese servers, sometimes I experience it, but rarely.
I believe it still lives on in the Call of Duty series, being based on id tech. There's even memes about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/edmai1/connection_in...