Originally Posted by Arthurrs
In any regard, at a company I used to work for several years ago, I had a battery powered ethernet hub where the 2 or 3 of us would connect our PowerBooks into and play marathon infinity at 30,000 feet!

Made for great fun, nothing more gratifying than sending a spanker missile to the boss and see him getting blown to bits!

If only we had wireless networks back then, it would have made seating arrangements a lot easier!
Hrrmmpph, ethernet. You kids were lucky!
I remember playing Xpilot over SL/IP via serial cable between two laptops somewhere around 1993 on a DC-10 from IAD->SFO.