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		flir on Nov 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rainbow Net Wi-Fi protocol for connecting old cons... It was designed to get you to dial up daily, wasn't it? A very early ancestor of today's attention-sapping mobile games, maybe.

RulerOf on Nov 10, 2023 [–]

It was. I think they _all_ were.

I got absolutely lost in Trade Wars 2002. I blame that game for what eventually turned into a love of game botting in general.

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