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> I have a faint memory back in the day of using the parallel port to do super speedy file transfers (compared to serial at least).

In the mid to late 90s, I was sharing my main 486's dial-up connection with an old clunky laptop using PLIP:

https://docs.kernel.org/networking/plip.html

So my brother and I could both use Netscape at the same time, on two different computers. Felt like the future!

P.S: actually the laptop was just running an X (back then not even Xorg yet) and displaying a Netscape window running on the main, beefier, PC. All over PLIP : )



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