1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived
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Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived
#2Hi everyone. Today I finished my latest project which was archving 1584 photos (+2 videos) of LAN parties in Tasmania ranging from 1996 to 2010.
Previously these photos were lost to time until I got in contact with the right people.
Looking through the photos is a great blast of nostalgia, I hope you get some enjoyment from looking through them too!
Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived
#3Hi everyone. Today I finished my latest project which was archving 1584 photos (+2 videos) of LAN parties in Tasmania ranging from 1996 to 2010. Previously these photos were lost to time until I got in contact with the right people. Looking through the photos is a great blast of nostalgia, I hope you get some enjoyment from looking through them too! https://issung.com/posts/lanphotosarchive/
Good times Thank you
Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived
#4I miss LAN parties... I miss the custom cases, the fancy drawings, the spilled sugary drinks that stuck to the table, and the open shares where you would copy the whole `Movies` folder on a 100Mbits connection..
I modded my case of course, and it was crappy. I'd integrated a glass window on the side, so people could (would!) look at my custom water cooling setup. And of course, the glass (held by hot glue), would fall down at the most unfortunate time. Great memories!
Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived
#5Is it possible to still play something like CS 1.6 on a LAN without needing an internet connection on modern computers? Occasionally I'll pop over to play-cs.com but curious if there'a a local mode...
My first LAN Party was sponsored by the Uni... Quake3. The two dept sysadmins took on the freshmen class (16 of us) and smoked us. Was hilarious.
Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived
#6I wonder what could be today's alternative to the environments of LAN parties of early 00s (I never attended to previous ones).
Even if one were to recreate the events, I feel lots of the activities of these meetings (meeting the selected few gamers face-to-face, sharing media, and only finally gaming) are somewhat obsolete or not needed anymore.
Part of me wishes we still had these but that would mean removing lots of improvements and putting up barriers to entry to computers, games and the Internet.
Dunno, I might be rambling but perhaps one should just be happy to have been part of that scene back then and move on?
For me, the closest I got to that has been participating to hackathons (although many misses) even though those tend to be more stressful than the LAN parties.
Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived
#7I miss LAN parties... I miss the custom cases, the fancy drawings, the spilled sugary drinks that stuck to the table, and the open shares where you would copy the whole `Movies` folder on a 100Mbits connection.. I modded my case of course, and it was crappy. I'd integrated a glass window on the side, so people could (would!) look at my custom water cooling setup. And of course, the glass (held by hot glue), would fal…
I never understood the appeal of all the gaudy gamer PC aesthetics, just as a piece of furniture you keep at home it looks ridiculous.
But thinking of it in the context of lugging your PC to a LAN party, now I'm picturing a fork of Fast and Furious but instead of all the tricked out cars revving their engines with their hoods popped, its a row of gamer PCs running DirectX benchmarks, and the length people go to make an original piece of art out of their motherboard suddenly make sense.
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#8One thing that strikes me about the photos I've flipped through so far, is being that LAN parties rarely have adequate sunlight, they're pretty consistently flash photography on film, and I think this effects how people respond (or are otherwise caught in the act) to having their photo taken. Nowadays phones have sensitive enough sensors to not need flash, and have infinite storage so you're unlikely to just take one 'snap' and move on -- so for anyone in the field of view of a person holding up their smart phone, you don't know precisely what moment was captured, or whether its a video being recorded, and I just think there's a subtle shift in behavior when you don't know whether an image is being captured or not.
Just thinking out loud, as someone who's recently picked up film photography again to see how it changes what pictures I get. Thanks for the effort collecting all these in one place.
Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived
#9One thing that strikes me about the photos I've flipped through so far, is being that LAN parties rarely have adequate sunlight, they're pretty consistently flash photography on film, and I think this effects how people respond (or are otherwise caught in the act) to having their photo taken. Nowadays phones have sensitive enough sensors to not need flash, and have infinite storage so you're unlikely to just take one…
> One thing that strikes me about the photos I've flipped through so far, is being that LAN parties rarely have adequate sunlight
That's because you'd want to be able to see what's going on on the monitor without the sun getting in the way. It also happens to be a fact that LAN party types tend to be part troglodyte and thus prefer the darkness of caves and such.
Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived
#10Is it possible to still play something like CS 1.6 on a LAN without needing an internet connection on modern computers? Occasionally I'll pop over to play-cs.com but curious if there'a a local mode... My first LAN Party was sponsored by the Uni... Quake3. The two dept sysadmins took on the freshmen class (16 of us) and smoked us. Was hilarious.
CS 1.6 never required internet to host a LAN-accessible server. It would be trivial to setup and play even today.