@[email protected] describes working on internet infrastructure back in the 1990s. This was on one of those “drive by” AskLemmys where a new user posts a juicy question, then after a couple hours they delete the topic and their account. However, those posts and comments are still visible in Piefed, ex: https://piefed.social/post/1733969#comment_9969293

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    18 days ago

    Fun story and commentary on gaming addiction!

    I don’t recall playing MUD’s in particular, but in the early aughts (the 2000’s), I got seriously addicted to “Armagetron” (3D version of the grid-cycle game from the original TRON movie), and then “Gunbound,” which was like a super-deluxe version of the old “Scorched Earth” artillery game. I’m kind of a late-bloomer in life, and those were sort of like a beer-filled, addictive multiplayer game that I otherwise would have been playing in college, more or less. So, good to get those out of my system, I guess.

    • Sergio@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      3·
      18 days ago

      uh… I dunno about “addiction”… but I used to play Civilization pretty much nonstop…