Yeah. The chaos was indeed delightful. I actually didn't get much gaming done on those days since I didn't usually have much of a gaming machine for myself at

Yeah. The chaos was indeed delightful. I actually didn't get much gaming done on those days since I didn't usually have much of a gaming machine for myself at that time. My focus was instead mostly directed at getting everyone else up and running. Every now and then I'd take a turn at someone else's computer. It worked fine. Except that one day when I did bring a reasonably-capable machine with a Voodoo3 2000 card. On that day, I was the one having computer issues and it seemed like getting updated drivers from 3dfx was the correct move to make. But nVidia had just announced their purchase of 3dfx. And 3dfx's own website was dead like it had never really existed; as if someone had walked into the closet where it was hosted and yanked the plug out of the wall. It was at that time that it became clear that the early web tendency to scatter mirrors of important things all over the place had become a lost concept. I spent hours trying to find drivers. It felt like all of my well-honed Google-fu was a spectacular failure. But I did eventually succeed at finding recent drivers, and they did fix my problem, and games were then played. The specificity of the occasion pins down the date very precisely: Saturday, December 16, 2000.