Re: We were doing that at the lab at uni
I recall playing Doom via a 25-pin null modem cable... only two-way, but at least it avoided upsetting the 'serious' network users. Some time after that, for several years I ran an Unreal Tournament server on an ancient frankenmachine running Red Hat inside $university's firewall, sneaking through the firewall on port 3389 (which they helpfully left open for RDP). Don't think they ever noticed the traffic, which by then was pennies compared to their big backbone pipe. I still play UT occasionally - believe it or not, there's still something of a community of regulars online, 20 years after it was released...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
