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Jonathan Blow

On The Metal

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What Was Your First Experience With Networked Games?

In college when I should have been studying computer science I played a number of video games. My favorite game was a game called net track which was actually made by students there which was a client server. The Apollo lab had just been replaced by the Sun lab when he showed up at university and so that's your first real exposure to networked games. After school I did like a really boring enterprise software company for six months no offense to the people I know from that time but it wasn't a thing. Then I went to I got a contract at SGI which was still a thing back then you bet and I ported this relatively famous game doom to  the set-top box system they

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