LAN in IIT KGP

The LAN/DC++ in IIT KGP was indeed a beacon of hope and entertainment amid the wilderness surrounding the institute. The fact that the institute is situated in the poorest district in India, nothwithstanding. The institute was actually a jail in the British Raj. That accounted for the eerie ambience. The place was gloomy in the mornings. The mornings felt like evenings really. Among the few good things was the general interaction with "bright" people from all over India. There was so much knowledge flowing everywhere. And then there was the LAN. The biggest misfortune of our batch was that we stayed in the then newly built MMM Hall - SD Sharma block which did not have LAN for the first whole semester. Only in second semester, did we get the LAN. I remember the first day when I installed DC++ in my old-school clunky desktop. All of us went berserk downloading whatever we could find. And by the end of the week all of the computers were infected by virus! Well most of them. I wish I had better hardware at that time. I plan to visit the campus sometime again and experience the changes (if any) first hand :) Once a KPGian always a KGPian!