When it worked, IPX LAN was maybe the peak UX in multiplayer gaming.
Moving everything to TCP/IP came with a lot of improvements, but we also lost important things. Reminds me of the move from Flash to HTML5.
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I was using ipx over hamachi for multiplayer c&c as recently as 15 years ago!
Hamachi is what I always bring up when explaining tailscale :P