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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 :)
My combo 10base2/10baseT card begs to differ.
That was literally what I said:
> Which would make sense for the era of quake when Ethernet wasn’t yet ubiquitous.
Also token ring was just one of a few different network protocols that supported BNC. Technically you could run Ethernet 10base2 over BNC too (In fact I used to have network cards that supported this, though I only used them for 10baseT).
TR was definitely the more common protocol for BNC hardware though.
Token ring was the protocol, BNC the connector. Have you even lived without StarCraft on X.25 ? Don't forget to cap the ends!
Nope. Ethernet back in the 10mbit days was over rj45 or thin cable BNC. Man I am old.
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.