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A Lament for the LAN Party
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Re: A Lament for the LAN Party
#22LAN parties were an interesting normative force at my high school. You always hear about the tension between jocks and geeks. But jocks like playing video games as much as geeks, who had the technical know-how to get networked games going. So the jocks at my high school were really interested in being friends with us nerds. We finally had something in common! Our LAN parties were this strange alternate universe where the captain of the football team hung out with the science fair nerds. We even had cheer leaders come to our LAN parties.
I graduated before the internet really obviated the need for LANs. From younger friends, I heard that when the Xbox 360/PS3 came out, LAN parties slowed down, and jocks ceased interactions with nerds. But there was that brief period in the early 2000s where we existed in harmony.
Re: A Lament for the LAN Party
#23For anyone that likes this sort of thing, I found a few videos of old LAN parties from 1998-2001:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X43soJt7jI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ6bzgl6vKA
Also, this is much more recent but really captures the whole LAN party spirit. It's a basically bunch of guys playing sudden-death Minecraft.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUNF3_hO_no
There are some other LAN games on their channel that are fun as well.
Re: A Lament for the LAN Party
#24This was even before LAN parties became a thing, but I still remember playing 'hunt' (IIRC) on pre-Solaris Sun 3/50 workstations in the math department computer lab.
Nothing quite like those slime bombs.
Found a bit more on this impossible to search for game: http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/255131/the-internet-s-forgott...
Re: A Lament for the LAN Party
#25> The LAN party, where you and six mates cram yourself into a dining room for a weekend, hook up your PCs with a complex series of switches, routers and CAT9 cables, somehow became quite the thing. What is a CAT9 cable?
No idea, I remember playing around with 10-base-t coax a few times...
10base-2, we had some localtalk phonenet mac lan parties too.
Re: A Lament for the LAN Party
#26Anybody remember Snipes on the old Novell LANs?
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#27Just going to pitch in Diablo 1&2 and Myth: the Fallen Lords and Myth 2: Soulblighter.
So many hours.
Re: A Lament for the LAN Party
#28Probably about 4 times per year on a long weekend, my mates and I still get together in someone's warehouse or garage and have a 3 day LAN. There's normally between 15-20 people, and we play a mix of CS:Source, Warcraft 3 custom maps, AoE, Dota 2, and whatever else the fashion is at the time. A recent one has been Spintires, which is a blast with 4 people! That said, the amount of sleep and the quality of the food we…
Also, the advent of broadband and routers now mean networking is literally plug and play, not spending 2-3 hours trying to either set up a DHCP server, or assign static IPs and trying to figure out why it's not working, only to find out that someone mistyped it.
Re: A Lament for the LAN Party
#29Seems the spirit here is more smaller events, but we still run a 720-864 person event every 3 months here in Perth, Western Australia
www.rflan.org
Re: A Lament for the LAN Party
#30LAN parties were an interesting normative force at my high school. You always hear about the tension between jocks and geeks. But jocks like playing video games as much as geeks, who had the technical know-how to get networked games going. So the jocks at my high school were really interested in being friends with us nerds. We finally had something in common! Our LAN parties were this strange alternate universe where…
Call me crazy but as I understand it from kids today it's pretty cool to be a "nerd" today