Comment by firmretention
1 day ago
I saw that NET indicator plenty when playing on 56k back in the day. Funny to see it written about as some curious historical artifact.
1 day ago
I saw that NET indicator plenty when playing on 56k back in the day. Funny to see it written about as some curious historical artifact.
I believe it still lives on in the Call of Duty series, being based on id tech. There's even memes about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/edmai1/connection_in...
Yeah. Looks like an ethernet jack. True, buts its a modem jack (rj11 maybe?)
Are you sure it’s not meant to be an RJ45 plug? The cylindrical thing to the bottom left corner of the wall socket looks like it might be a BNC plug. Which would make sense for the era of quake when Ethernet wasn’t yet ubiquitous.
RJ45 next to BNC implies a token ring network, not ethernet :)
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Yes i look closer. Maybe it is a rj45.
The proportions look more like RJ11 than RJ45 to me. Not how big the clip is compared to the plug. Of course this is a hand drawn icon so take everything with a grain of salt.
You can still see it while playing in 2025, for Quake 2 at least, on Tastypleen servers in the U.S. The servers crash for some reason. Or if you connect to Chinese servers, sometimes I experience it, but rarely.