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On 1/23/2015 2:48 PM, sohcahtoa82@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 9:39:53 PM UTC-8, alex23 wrote:

> I seem to recall an interview with someone from Blizzard Entertainment mentioning that the first Warcraft game (Released in 1994) was developed by passing around floppy disks with new code among the developers.
>
> Though I imagine that was actually probably pretty common back then.
>

It even had a formal name -- sneakernet

Emile