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You just don't ever, EVER, touch another persons computer without them inviting you in for help, or some kind of showoff. Atleast one of your boys would look after your computer while you were afk. Someone would always be there
I remember writing a tool that blared a siren wav every time someone connected to your network share. It would be quiet at the start of a round, and then as people died you'd hear sirens going off left and right. Remains one of the few contexts where nerds would do drugs. Speed mostly. You ever played Quake with a bunch of dudes on speed? It's fucking nuts. The smells. Some LANs would go on for a week. Lots spanned s…
> It was great when LCDs came about. Once upon a time, I owned a 19" CRT that weighed less than a typical 17" CRT. Such good fortune. Still, I never did have the courage to carry my tower on one hip and my monitor on the other (and everything else in a backpack), so I guess it didn't really benefit me that much after all. > most lasted upwards of 12 hours. You're damn right. Imagine carting a CRT around and then only…
- 'portable' old 14" for safety and ease of transport
- 'shiny' new 19" for showoff and ease of gaming
I worked at such venues and helped friends who worked at such venues back in the day. What I remember mostly is having to move from one computer to another setting IP addresses and the annoyance of having to restart Win 98 after setting an IP. I still don’t understand why that was a requirement. Later during Win XP days, most places started having a dedicated set of machines and you didn’t need to lug your computer a…
Those games have such amazing soundtracks. Unreal Tournament's music instantly brings back memories of frenetic LAN multiplayer.
During the 90's my older brother and I had a coaxial cable running between our two rooms through a hole in the wall. We used to play deathmatch DooM and Quake. If he wasn't home, I would invite my best friend over and we would play together. Of course, I got to play on my brother's PC which was superior.
My best friend and I would frequent Duke3D. I vividly remember a wide open city map with a fire truck driving around the perimeter. You would think that getting run over by the firetruck would kill you, but instead you would just appear on top of it.
The OP is younger than me. You haven’t been to a LAN party until you’ve shocked yourself by unplugging a BNC connector.
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I dunno, I think Adderall was pretty easily available back then our crew never really did illegal or prescription drugs But we'd drink booze and/or achieve Adderall-like effects with caffeinated energy drinks. None of us drank coffee so we had like... zero caffeine tolerance. If you have zero caffeine tolerance and you slam multiple energy drinks the effect is NOT subtle of course, TODAY, my ruined body is so immune…
> of course, TODAY, my ruined body is so immune to caffeine I can chug coffee directly before a satisfying REM nap lol Going on a tangent: it takes a while for the caffeine you drink to make it through your digestive system, so even for someone without any tolerance at all, they could take a few shots of espresso on a full stomach and then have about a 30 minute window to have a nap, before the jitter starts.
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Don't forget getting 10BaseT, NetBEUI and IPX to work on all players' computers [1]. Easily half a day was lost every time, but it was part of it, and almost fun. [1] Extra points if a player had participated in another LAN party with other people and had changed some or the other Windows network setting for that LAN party. "It worked last month and I did not change anything!" was always only true until the "and".
I worked at a computer repair place that had a bunch of 16 port hubs (not switches) collecting dust. Naive teenage me thought "that's a lot of ports!" and I begged the owner to let me have them for my LAN parties. He gave me a funny look and said sure why not. The chaos that ensued having those things involved, not understanding collisions, really kickstarted my networking career.
very familiar points except the part about stealing hard drives. Totally unthinkable scenario. You just don't ever, EVER, touch another persons computer without them inviting you in for help, or some kind of showoff. Atleast one of your boys would look after your computer while you were afk. Someone would always be there