A group of us discovered the only range of non-firewalled IPs in our university, which belonged to a particular library building. And because this was Windows 95 and you could just change your IP to whatever you wanted, we could connect to Quakeworld with a ridiculously low ping.

I know, right? It’s lovely to see a real, genuine, bona fide dickhead in the comments. God bless you Slacker, you fucking moron.

As if to prove the point: Mastodon runs on Ruby on Rails :D