Old school Barrysworld

[cHodAX]

Was browsing the archive site and decided to have a look at how BW used to be. Happy days and yes it was green back then too, as God intended! Oh and lol, the 0845 number!

Barrysworld - General News

Good site The Way Back Machine, lots of nostalgia to be had.

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

 

[Deebs]

Ah those were the days, sorely missed

 

[Panda On Smack]

BW Dial-Up was the best

I heart you AQ

 

[Embattle]

BW Dial-Up was the best

I heart you AQ

It was indeed, ran up a massive bill on that

 

[throdgrain]

BW dialup on my ISDN line, I thought I was leet

 

[Aph3x]

I was an old BW Dialupper too! HPB were the bestest at CS, dont let those LPBs with their fancy broadband tell you otherwise!

 

[Wij]

Off in some foreign field is a DM3 that...

brb - need a shit.

 

[cHodAX]

I was an old BW Dialupper too! HPB were the bestest at CS, dont let those LPBs with their fancy broadband tell you otherwise!

Those HPB were fucking pro when they finally got good connections.

 

[ECA]

It was funny back then when everyone was on slow connections and when someone with a low ping joined everyone started asking them where they got their connection/etc.

 

[SilverHood]

Yeah ECA. I remember playing UT instagib and Tac Ops.... lowest ping on server would be some dude on ISDN with a ping of 180. Then someone on ADSL would join with a single digit ping. WTF??? would ensue

Incidentally, I've noticed that my ping peaked around 2002 - was thirty and below every time. Even on quicker connections at my folks house, I can't get that latency anymore. Even here in US, where I have high speed cable, I can't get it below 60.

 

[cHodAX]

Yeah ECA. I remember playing UT instagib and Tac Ops.... lowest ping on server would be some dude on ISDN with a ping of 180. Then someone on ADSL would join with a single digit ping. WTF??? would ensue

Incidentally, I've noticed that my ping peaked around 2002 - was thirty and below every time. Even on quicker connections at my folks house, I can't get that latency anymore. Even here in US, where I have high speed cable, I can't get it below 60.

The networks are flooded now, the amount of routing required and the shite being fed through them has pretty much killed the ultra low ping era. Blame iPlayer and Utorrent.

 

[Ch3tan]

I used to get a ping of 4-8 on CS when I first got cable. I was so l33t.

 

[Embattle]

I ran up a quarterly phone bill of £1000 playing AQ2.

 

[Yaka]

fucking miss those days, play on the servers preety much with the same friendly peeps each night, active irc chan no matter what the time and those all nighters. nothing comes close to what bw had then when which every mp game i play these days i always end up thinking it it was so much more back then

 

[ECA]

I ran up a quarterly phone bill of £1000 playing AQ2.

My worst was about £350.
fml

Thank god for redhotant and so forth that came out

 

[MrHorus]

fucking miss those days, play on the servers preety much with the same friendly peeps each night, active irc chan no matter what the time and those all nighters. nothing comes close to what bw had then when which every mp game i play these days i always end up thinking it it was so much more back then

'tis about the community rather than the game.

I'm a member of what could be described as an "IRC clan". We have all known each other online for years and years now and whilst games come and go, we always try to get together with a couple other clans for a LAN twice a year.

One of the reasons I hardly play online these days is that I just don't have enthusiasm for joining a random server with a bunch of whiny Americans - there isn't any spirit and it's just not the same when you can't slag them on IRC afterwords

 

[Yaka]

remember when it was weekends only ultima and qw for me, this quickly turned to an hour each evening and few hours sat/sunday then the hours increased and i stopped caring how much my bill was.
it scares me even thinking about how much i ended up spending those days

 

[WPKenny]

Wow that takes me back.

I used to have a PACE modem that gave me sub 110 pings.

My parents bailed me out of a couple of hefty phone bills (£300+) and even when those freephone redhotant accounts did the rounds it was still a major bug bear of theirs. So much so that me and my dad had a big falling out over it and he basically kicked me out.

All over ActionQuake2. Ah, those were the days!

 

[MrHorus]

My parents bailed me out of a couple of hefty phone bills (£300+) and even when those freephone redhotant accounts did the rounds it was still a major bug bear of theirs. So much so that me and my dad had a big falling out over it and he basically kicked me out.

And how many of us who got hassle about "wasting time and money" on the computer now earn our crust (and a decent wage as well) in the IT industry?

 

[WPKenny]

And how many of us who got hassle about "wasting time and money" on the computer now earn our crust (and a decent wage as well) in the IT industry?

/me holds his hand up

 

[Insane]

And how many of us who got hassle about "wasting time and money" on the computer now earn our crust (and a decent wage as well) in the IT industry?

My parents still whinge about that to this day, their latest critique was how I should of became an accountant instead of focusing on computers.

my maths was utter shit at school

 

[Tom]

Whenever I think about the old BW I remember Jobbie owning me on CS.

 

[Ch3tan]

Hehe, Jobbie with his bloody aug and accurate flashing.

It's annoying how good BW dial up was, made me spend money on it even though I had free dial up as well. It was just the best for low latency dial up.

 

[DaGaffer]

Hehe, Jobbie with his bloody aug and accurate flashing.

It's annoying how good BW dial up was, made me spend money on it even though I had free dial up as well. It was just the best for low latency dial up.

That's because the Cisco gear they bought with all that VC money was massively over-specced. I know, I saw the bills.

 

[Jiggs]

Remember arguing with my flatemate over which modem string to use :d

 

[Insane]

That's because the Cisco gear they bought with all that VC money was massively over-specced. I know, I saw the bills.

But isn't all Cisco kit massively over-specced for the job it does?

 

[Yaka]

Whenever I think about the old BW I remember Jobbie owning me on CS.

he now constantly plays MW2 on steam, ive pld with him and his chums a few times. the guy must be a robot as his playing style has not changed. im 30 and i am not as good as i was 10 years ago even then that wasnt very good

 

[Deebs]

That's because the Cisco gear they bought with all that VC money was massively over-specced. I know, I saw the bills.

Actually the dialup was just as great before we had the VC money, in those days we had a Cisco AS53000 (max capacity 120 lines).