The first thing we did with the mass communication opportunities offered by the internet, was hooking up a LAN to blast the heck out of each other. That probably reveals something deep and meaningful about human nature. Sad as it may be, there still are people alive, namely the writer of this article, who used to believe that nothing could beat an afternoon spent in a room full of sweaty teenagers playing Doom 2 over a serial uplink, taking turns blasting coloured pixels off the screen.