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How did you mess with school computers? (lemm.ee)

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[–] tryagain 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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