LAN/Internet.....Two Years in BIT , MESRA

hi folks,
New year is here and time to continue with life as a blogger .So here i am with my first blog entry this year . Today LAN /Internet facility becomes two years old in BIT, MESRA . Life was never same since start of LAN/Intrenet. Campus lifestyle changed completely . This blog entry tries to specify the changes and know how "DC++" ," nick ", "IP" , "slow net speed " became as important as sleeping and eating.

Steve Jobs once said , "computer is networking ", and now i can say how correct he was . yes , without network computer is nothing . Story started with workers coming to our hostels with instruments to spread lan wires in our hostel ( during september 2006 if i can remember correctly ). In january LAN was working in new year 2007 . A new era had begun silently . Softwares , movies , songs , "above 18 videos" were available with click of mouse . Who can forget " TSR " (DC++ name of our 2k3 senior ) as he was responsible for running " BIT Hub " 24/7 and sharing more than 100 GB data ( huge in those days ) . People started discussing problems on main chat ( main chat was also used for time pass bakwas , we love this even now ) . Boyfriend-girlfriend chat became easier . Lets' not forget " Counter strike ", "DOTA " , Pocket tank , Moto GP , AoE, FIFA , players who made game as their life . Some were able to come out , some are still trying to be better Gamer ( Best of luck to them !! ) . To sum up what i can remember

1. Tanatan , Waves , Duldul , -..GrIm_ReApEr..- , gogeshwar , are immortal names and they were founders of " interesting video " suppliers group (endangered species ) .

2. College events used LAN heavily for promotion purpose (only ) .notably ACM went online and was great experience for everyone .

3. user count was 414 , during india-barmuda match during world cup 2007.

4. AMTAN , showed live cricket matches on LAN , congrats to them .

5. Internet became part of everyones' lifestyle , and many switched to LINUX ( another story ) , and local repository of linux was created ( good work by ntweat (nickname) ) .

6. There are two types of users , one who use torrent or whatever to download and share , others just use those shared data . Hey! but spirit of sharing is not less though ( great ) .

There are many more things to add , may be next year i can remember more things as i won't be using BIT's internet , which i am doing right now . Because we all know ," we miss somethings most if we don't have them ". Long live BIT's LAN /INTERNET .