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by TacticalCoder 1523 days ago
When I got my first Internet connection at home (kinda late as I was "big times" into BBSes before that), I was already using Linux. But we were too cheap to have a network at home so... I'd use "PLIP" (parallel port IP) to share our Internet connection between me and my brother: a parallel cable between my beige PC (a 486? Pentium? Don't remember) and a crappy old laptop. And so the two of use were simultaneously using Netscape or something.

It made me sad when computers starting shipping without a parallel port: I mean... Even laptop had these back in the days!