• tryagain@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    A group of us discovered the only range of non-firewalled IPs in our university, which belonged to a particular library building. And because this was Windows 95 and you could just change your IP to whatever you wanted, we could connect to Quakeworld with a ridiculously low ping.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
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      1 year ago

      Windows can do that now, too. As long as the network is flat, then you can do this today. Nice find!

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      1 year ago

      Still can change your ip most of the time! Jfc most devices just take whatever ip a responding DHCP server gives them, not to mention dns!