The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party
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The Rise and Fall of the LAN Party
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#2Related:
More anecdotes and discussion of the book LAN Party from it's early stages
Just a bunch of idiots having fun: a photo history of the LAN party (2022)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680678
And more recently a review last year:
Berlin Review: LAN Party
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36898833
CNN last month:
A nostalgic look back at when the Internet still felt joyful
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#3Waaazzup?
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#4I was on some great LAN parties.
Nice memories.
Four years ago I attended a LAN party where I was the youngest one (26 back then). All others already had kids but swore to keep the old spirit alive. Never have I seen such a well organised party with actually working games :D. They used the "eti-launcher"
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#5I remember showing up at my first LAN party, ~20 years younger than my online friends. They just couldn’t believe I was actually 13. They were really nice. One woman had a son my age that I went to a music festival with when I was 20. Another got me my first job as a programmer.
Somehow I just don’t see that kind of stuff happening nowadays; sending your kid off to some unknown destination with his PC to sleep in a gym hall with some strangers from “The Internet”. Either the world was smaller and simpler back then, or my parents were crazy, or both.
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#6I loved lan parties. Putting all my heavy gear in my cheap old little car. Big ass 19 inch crt and a big tower full of useless buttons and knobs. Spend the entire day and evening setting everything up. Of course everything broke to the point windows had to be reinstalled. Driver issues, network issues, hardware issues. But then finally at 1am we started playing serious sam, unreal tournament, dune 2000, 1nsane, moha, quake 2 or 3, team fortress 1 and many more. Good old times.
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#8I remember when there was a lan party aboard the USS Hornet aircraft carrier in the SF Bay Area.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hornet_(CV-12)
I think that would be the pinnacle.
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#9Recently, my friends and I recreated our old LAN parties. Went up to a cabin in the woods, brought some cheap network switches, and had everyone install OpenRA (https://www.openra.net/, open red alert), and had a blast, even with everyone on laptops (mac/win). You can still do this in 2024 and it's worth it!
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#10Shout out to my old homies from LC3 LAN (Loraine County Community College in Ohio)