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Cake day: June 21st, 2023

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  • We used to have LAN parties back in the day with dialup internet.

    We’d need a dedicated machine to just dial up to the internet and share the connection, because that way it could run for a day or more at a time without crashing and kicking everyone off.

    I remember the moment where I realised I could just… plug the modem into my new XP machine now. You could use a computer and share internet and it’d work! For days!

    There’s a reason XP hung on for so long and the previous versions didn’t. XP was the first version of Windows that people felt was good enough and they didn’t need anything more.