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Old 09-27-2014, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by harnold [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Boxing is classic. Everyone boxed back then and everyone knows it.
Leaving aside the other (excellent) points about how not "everyone boxed", there's a more important point you're missing: no one free boxed back in the day.

If you wanted to box back in the day you had to pay extra for a special DSL/cable/ISDN line, and you had to pay for multiple accounts and multiple computers to play them on. That cost a significant chunk of change.

With Project 1999 though a modern computer, with a standard (no longer super expensive) DSL/cable line can run 6 "boxes" all from a single box. And if boxing was allowed all 6 accounts would be free. That's nothing like it was in '99, when boxing was extremely limited just becaus of the cost.