On May 21 2012 22:04 mTwTT1 wrote: All of us old schoolers hung out on a chat application named Kali, which predated B.net. Kali enabled us to simulate TCP/IP networks between users so we could multiplay. Yes, you heard right, there was no b.net only LAN and we had to invent technology to play over the internet with it. Amazing how now everyone is begging for LAN back .
I remeber Kali, it was actually when I was introduced to BW. We had few PCs in LAN but we had no Internet there. I think we used Kali as a proxy because the game complained about just single license I only remember mass mutas from there and that one French girl was actually owning us. But that was many years ago before I started watching BW games on YT channels and discovered TL (lurking for more than 5 years here...) so I had no idea about the scene or if it was esport back then. So still most of the names doesn't ring a bell, I started watching the Korean VODs and didn't follow international scene until later.
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Aha! Fun read, thanks. I enjoyed the testie vs incontrol video All the BW legend makes me sad I never played it. I wonder if someday people will be talking about SC2 like this...
All of us old schoolers hung out on a chat application named Kali, which predated B.net. Kali enabled us to simulate TCP/IP networks between users so we could multiplay. Yes, you heard right, there was no b.net only LAN and we had to invent technology to play over the internet with it. Amazing how now everyone is begging for LAN back .
Small correction: Kali simulated a IPX network over a TCP/IP network (Internet).
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boesthius United States. May 22 2012 09:26. Posts 9794
You forgot to include the WDT scam ran by smuft/elky. Probably the biggest bullshit to ever happen in the BW days aside from the Savior/koreans scandal.
Great post though btw, pG was the team i looked up to the most as well as TL. Back when i played protoss i looked up to team z7- which was pretty much all protoss users lol.
I then switched to terran after watching some of Gundam's replays. Vulture vs goon micro became an obsession. O how good it feels to surround a group of goons with mines and run away watching the blue goo splatter all over the battlefield.