Back then, Red Alliance handed every participant a piece of software called "flood," just a few dozen KB in size. Tens of thousands of people would open it at the agreed time, and then mid-level members would launch the attack. (Back then, ADSL dial-up was just a few dozen KB per second. My friends and I were all noobs, pulling all-nighters fighting lag for several nights—damn, I miss those days…)
In the end, the Red Hackers snagged a temporary victory, but honestly, both sides ended up battered and bruised.
No sugarcoating it here.
Out of the more than 80,000 who joined the fight at the time, 90% were just hobbyist newbies with barely any technical know-how. A lot of them had only just learned how to connect to the internet.
But among the core group that remained, quite a few legendary hackers emerged.
Like Lion, Wan Tao, Goodwell, Ice River, Aullik5, Lone Swordsman, and…
Guo Rong.
