[firmretention]

I saw that NET indicator plenty when playing on 56k back in the day. Funny to see it written about as some curious historical artifact.

[veeti]

I believe it still lives on in the Call of Duty series, being based on id tech. There's even memes about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/edmai1/connection_in...

[jaffa2]

Yeah. Looks like an ethernet jack. True, buts its a modem jack (rj11 maybe?)

[hnlmorg]

Are you sure it’s not meant to be an RJ45 plug? The cylindrical thing to the bottom left corner of the wall socket looks like it might be a BNC plug. Which would make sense for the era of quake when Ethernet wasn’t yet ubiquitous.

[jandrese]

The proportions look more like RJ11 than RJ45 to me. Not how big the clip is compared to the plug. Of course this is a hand drawn icon so take everything with a grain of salt.

[system2]

You can still see it while playing in 2025, for Quake 2 at least, on Tastypleen servers in the U.S. The servers crash for some reason. Or if you connect to Chinese servers, sometimes I experience it, but rarely.