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I put knoppix on a cd and since the filtering was implemented via a proxy server that was entirely voluntary to use… also bypassed the filtering.

Once I burned a bunch of Linux boot cds with unreal tournament on them and took over a computer lab to have a lan party. That was fun until the lab monitor got spooked that his monitoring system showed all the computers as turned off when clearly the lab was full…

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In our high school, you could install the Halo: Combat Evolved demo so we would play LAN across the whole school. They eventually caught on and started deleting Halo from all the computers, so we would just have the installation file on a flash drive, install it, and then uninstall it when done.

All I had was Doom II over IPX.

IPX was before my day, but interesting to learn IPX was the main protocol before TCP/IP got popular

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