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Re: Memories from old LAN parties

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Post by mobilio »

prox wrote: post #114
mesh wrote: post #66

So many found memories of Red Alert 2 and Quake 2 playing at lan parties in the 90s. I was lucky enough in the early 2000's where I could use my love of video games and lan parties as part of my job. I was responsible for the Flash community at Macromedia, and we would set up 4 xboxes with split screen for 8 player Halo 2 and 3 tournaments in conference rooms (which has multiple plasma screens already set up). I quic…

I miss Macromedia, Adobe is just a corporate grey blob. Macromedia had character and good products.

Still miss Fireworks

Re: Memories from old LAN parties

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Post by Propelloni »

k__ wrote: post #119

Irrespectively of the number of participants, there will only be a maximum of 1 terminators available for the BNC network. It will take years until you can use Ethernet at a LAN party, because of the one poor guy who can't afford to upgrade from BNC. There is always that one pr0n addict who watches it the whole weekend. Everyone says they won't sleep the entire weekend, but at the first night all but one person are s…

> Irrespectively of the number of participants, there will only be a maximum of 1 terminators available for the BNC network.

Haha, so true! It reminds me of a LAN party we had at a friend's house. We had a bag of spare parts but, of course, the guy bringing the bag was late. This was around 1992 or so, thus before mobile phones and nobody knew anything. Our host (the pr0n guy, but instead of watching porn he liked to put short porn mpgs into Windows autostart of unattended PCs) in desperation soldered a make-shift terminator from parts of his dad's model railroad. I know he used a t-junction, but I don't know how he did it. Took him half an hour and it worked good enough to set up the network (Personal Netware at the time) before the guy with the bag of parts showed up. Quite a feat, and good thing we weren't so much into drinking at this point of time. Later we established the rule that to participate you have to bring one terminator and one t-junction, that fixed that.

Re: Memories from old LAN parties

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Post by Mistletoe »

jl6 wrote: post #116

I went to LAN party where everyone had lugged their CRTs, except one kid who had a 15” TFT LCD screen, which were super rare and expensive at the time. It had a huge crack right down the center, but was still just about usable. I asked him how that happened. He said he was playing online (Counterstrike I think?) and lost a match, causing him to punch the screen in frustration. That screen must have cost >$1000 at the…

Ah XxX_420_Slayer69_420_XxX from Xbox Live out in the wild before moving online.

Re: Memories from old LAN parties

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Post by k__ »

stavros wrote: post #128
k__ wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, I had a 17" TFT in 2000. Was at a 600 people LAN and only one other dude had one.

Did it have a huge crack down the center?

Haha, no.

It didn't have any issues ever.

In fact, I found another one (same model) 10 years later on the streets and used the two for a ther 2 years, until I bought two 27" displays when I finally got a real job.

Those things were build for eternity.

Re: Memories from old LAN parties

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Post by k__ »

Propelloni wrote: post #132
k__ wrote: post #119

Irrespectively of the number of participants, there will only be a maximum of 1 terminators available for the BNC network. It will take years until you can use Ethernet at a LAN party, because of the one poor guy who can't afford to upgrade from BNC. There is always that one pr0n addict who watches it the whole weekend. Everyone says they won't sleep the entire weekend, but at the first night all but one person are s…

> Irrespectively of the number of participants, there will only be a maximum of 1 terminators available for the BNC network. Haha, so true! It reminds me of a LAN party we had at a friend's house. We had a bag of spare parts but, of course, the guy bringing the bag was late. This was around 1992 or so, thus before mobile phones and nobody knew anything. Our host (the pr0n guy, but instead of watching porn he liked to…

haha, nice!

Everyone always had one T-junction and one cable, but somehow terminators were always missing...

Re: Memories from old LAN parties

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Post by TreeInBuxton »

mwest wrote: post #31
asadm wrote: post #8

Are there any LAN parties happening these days on regular basis? How does one become part of that group?

Insomnia Festival is the largest of these in the UK I believe. In fact, i71 is going on right now. :-) https://www.insomniagamingfestival.com/lan Still manages to capture some of that "old school" LAN feel if you bring your own PC.

There is also Insomnia's smaller sibling LAN, "StratLAN" - captures the old school small LAN feeling a lot more!

Re: Memories from old LAN parties

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Post by gattilorenz »

alexgaribay wrote: post #62

> The cool kids had a Barton Athlon XP 2500+ and a Radeon 9600. The rich kids had a 9800. I still remember trying to flash my 9600 bios to a 9800 because some were able to that. Unfortunately I didn’t have one of the lucky models that could do so.

Wait, why would you want to do that? I still have my 9800 :)

Re: Memories from old LAN parties

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Post by sgt »

I remember my first LAN party. No Internet, just one continuous 10Base(something) coaxial network where I was on the one far end. I brought down the entire network more than once when I needed to disconnect my BNC connector and terminator, in order to troubleshoot some hw/driver issues.

Re: Memories from old LAN parties

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Post by Propelloni »

k__ wrote: post #136
Propelloni wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Irrespectively of the number of participants, there will only be a maximum of 1 terminators available for the BNC network. Haha, so true! It reminds me of a LAN party we had at a friend's house. We had a bag of spare parts but, of course, the guy bringing the bag was late. This was around 1992 or so, thus before mobile phones and nobody knew anything. Our host (the pr0n guy, but instead of watching porn he liked to…

haha, nice! Everyone always had one T-junction and one cable, but somehow terminators were always missing...

Yeah, at one time we had so many t-junctions that we build a 1m tall robot out of them. That was the time where whatever bag you opened you would find a t-junction quad assembly.
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