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Similar happened at another even a few years later. Had about 30 people playing that revolutionary war half life mod on LAN. I think it was called BG mod or something. Good times.
Many of the people captured in this video still play today and have enduring friendships.
> If someone has shared their installation of Warcraft III over SMB it will run much faster if you copy it to your local machine first rather than execute it directly from the network folder. This one made me laugh. I'm really surprised it started that way at all. I think my LAN party time was a little later than most of what the author is describing (mostly Windows XP era), but I also remember the networking problem…
Oh of course. It wasn't a LAN party until you spent hours fiddling with networking settings that you could make heads or tails of, just so computers could talk to each other.
Then Hamachi came along :)
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> 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…
I found these Coolermaster straps that enabled you to carry your CRT and tower with a handle. SO SO SO useful for lan parties.
It was a 90s and we met through our BBS systems. there was no debate what to play, doom. Warcraft came soon after. The Internet sounded cool, too bad actually kind of destroyed everything. some of us had pagers. we made plans, over land lines, and everyone actually showed up. we didn’t take photos because that would be stupid. our parents would find out what we were doing. which was mostly drinking and smoking way to…
> If someone has shared their installation of Warcraft III over SMB it will run much faster if you copy it to your local machine first rather than execute it directly from the network folder. This one made me laugh. I'm really surprised it started that way at all. I think my LAN party time was a little later than most of what the author is describing (mostly Windows XP era), but I also remember the networking problem…
> but I also remember the networking problems I had at the start of _every_ LAN party. Oh of course. It wasn't a LAN party until you spent hours fiddling with networking settings that you could make heads or tails of, just so computers could talk to each other. Then Hamachi came along :)
I've only done a few LAN parties in the last handful of years, and they weren't quite as magical as doing it as a teenager where you spend 75% of the time deciding on what to play and then figuring out how to crack it so everyone can play.
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".