Poor Old Spike's pdfs?

[Westland]

Right,the MSN zone.I can still remember it. I think that was the only way to play MP strategy games on the internet at the end of the 90s.Age Of Empires Part 1 & 2 was played a lot there.In 2000 I switched to the first WW2 real-time strategy game Sudden Strike.
The whole thing with a 56k modem. Whole 5.6 kbytes / sec were only available to you.Anyone who had more money could already afford ISDN with double channel bundling with 14.7 kbytes / sec.At the beginning of 2001 the first cable modems came on the market with 60 kbyte / sec.
Those were the days, when you played an MP battle for 3-5 hours, at least on large maps for 12 players, and you fought down to the last pixel figure.No player would do that today.