An anecdote from my distant past: The Tale of the Half-Working Network (by alaric)

Ok, this is an interesting tale I've retold in person a few times. So I've decided to write it up for the world to see. The scene: My student flat, 1998. Seven of us are living there, and we're all nerds so there's lots of computers. The world of networked multi-player games is exploding, and we want to play. So, we buy some network cards, and go to [Maplin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maplin_(retailer)) for some coax cable, BNC connectors and terminators, and start to set up a [10BASE2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE2) LAN. But one of the computers can't talk to the others. What's going on? Read more »