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Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem (www.eznewswire.com)
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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Roblox needs to dramatically increase moderation, but calling it social media is not true.

It's a game platform with a chat window in whatever game you are playing like every other online game starting with Doom in 1993.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Doom had chat?

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 4 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

I don't think there were multiplayer FPSs until Quake in 1996

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 3 hours ago

Doom had multiplayer in 1993. It just wasn't over the internet until WinDoom came along. However, that was still before Quake.

[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

I played MIDI Maze on Atari ST as a kid, that was long before Quake…

Later in high school we played Doom over IPX.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Doom had multiplayer. It didn't have chat, though.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

I'm pretty sure it did. Used to play on an ipx network we setup at work just for it. I even got it working over tcpip using ipx tunneling.

Wiki here says it had chat:

https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/Doom_networking_component#%3A%7E%3Atext=4+Code+structure-%2CPlayer+view%2CHexen+include+two+executables%2C+IPXSETUP.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, I didn't realize the original Doom had multiplayer. It's a little hard to search for since now all that shows up is online multiplayer mods for it / source ports that came after

[–] trk@aussie.zone 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

We used to play DOOM multiplayer by connecting two dialup modems and pretending it was a serial link. Worked perfectly.

[–] nomy@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I had a couple friends and we all used to dial into each others computers after school and play Doom (and Duke Nukem 3D and later Descent which was mind blowing at the time).

It worked just fine, it was a blast.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works -1 points 13 hours ago

kids didn't bully eachother for not playing doom