telling my mom not to answer the phone when it rang so we could connect p2p and play warcraft 2. we got a 2nd phone line eventually.
Anyone remember Ten to play Duke Nuken?
I mean if we used discord we're just playing in real time
I also remember email was sketchy af. I had a small bbs running on my little piddly 486, mostly for files and email. It was part of Throbnet, which was email that was primarily eastern seaboard. Every night at midnight, the bbs would kick everyone off, then accept/send email bundles, sort of like a repeater. If anyone was down, your email could take days or weeks to reach the intended person.
and we had to walk to school. with no shoes, in the snow, uphill both ways
In 1998 the world started. It was called Tribes.