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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

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Post by diggan »

MoreMoore wrote: post #11
issung wrote: post #2

Hi 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/

This is really cool. Looks like there isn't a single download where one can get all the images though, which is a shame.

You can see a list of the uploads here: https://archive.org/details/@issung

Then either download the ones you're interested in manually as packs, as IA makes that very easy. Or, search through GitHub to find one of the bunch of IA downloading tools available.

Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived

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Post by diggan »

swozey wrote: post #27
jazzyjackson wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I feel bad that I feel this way but I really dislike them, but I can't believe those gamer chairs became the mainstream chair to see over the last few years. A few years ago they would get clowned, then it was less, and less, but it is cool that we're being more inclusive about chair themes. I know it was twitch and them giving free chairs away to get more people to buy them. Great marketing. Writing this from my aer…

I'm in my 30s, and somehow people think it's a miracle I don't have bad back problems after sitting at least 6 hours a day in front of the computer, while the only miracle performed is me going to a store to get a personalized recommendation based on how I like to sit, and invest hard in getting a proper chair.

First thing I ask when people complain about bad backs, is what chair they use. Often they've just grabbed some chair after going window shopping, instead of aiming for personalized recommendations from a professional. Often, they're using these shitty "gaming" chairs. Sometimes though, they've just read a bunch of the internet about how good Aeron chairs are, so they bought those, not understanding not every chair fits every sitting style...

Written from my Humanscale Freedom.

Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived

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Post by jahabrewer »

tw1984 wrote: post #43

saw a photo with like a dozen PCs running quake on a long table. I guess a recent model of iphone or flagship android phone is more than capable for running 12 instances of quake at 30fps in parallel?

Exponential's a helluva curve

Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived

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Post by MoreMoore »

diggan wrote: post #41
MoreMoore wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is really cool. Looks like there isn't a single download where one can get all the images though, which is a shame.

You can see a list of the uploads here: https://archive.org/details/@issung Then either download the ones you're interested in manually as packs, as IA makes that very easy. Or, search through GitHub to find one of the bunch of IA downloading tools available.

I'm interested in all of them, but not enough to go to every single page there.

Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived

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Post by kentonv »

exabrial wrote: post #5

Is 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.

Some games support it, some don't, but why does it even matter? Surely internet connections are sufficiently ubiquitous these days that nobody is trying to play PC games while totally offline? You can still have the players in the same room without necessarily having the game server there.

Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

qalmakka wrote: post #15

I still do LAN parties every once in a while with a group of friends. Meeting in the same room with laptops and bulky desktop PCs to play old 00s games is still a lot of fun!

For Christmas I purchased an N64 +4 gamepads +GoldenEye +SmashBros +MarioKart

==

Instant group nostalgia, a $100 Craigslist success.

Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived

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Post by ProllyInfamous »

asdff wrote: post #31
nkrisc wrote: post #28

It’s a shame LAN parties aren’t much of a thing anymore, given how powerful of a gaming computer you can pack in a mini-ITX case these days and the complete ubiquity of flat panel displays. You wouldn’t even necessarily need a wired network (though still desirable).

It died really because you can actually game on home internet unlike in the dialup era.

"MOM HANG UP THE PHONE I'M ZERG-RUSHING!"

Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived

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Post by xandrius »

TacticalCoder wrote: post #37
ThatPlayer wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think with how much more social gaming is nowadays, and the prevalence of team games, I'm not really interested in attending a LAN party alone. I want to play with my squad. And with the internet, that squad is pretty spread out so a get together at a LAN party is going to be difficult to coordinate. Though on the opposite end, locals are still common for 1v1 fighting games. Shared screen games that doesn't require…

LAN parties were way more social than "I play with my team (whom I ve never met IRL) over the Internet" . We were playing Warcraft 2 over a LAN between my house and the neighbors home and then we d run to the other house to discuss the game over a drink. Or playing Warcraft 2 on laptops using some power inverter hooked to the car s battery in a truck, at night before going to sleep, on a surfing trip. If anything gam…

Exactly, I think that's the main difference. Before you had to be together, now people need the foresight to value in-person activities as well as wanting to play together. That's a combination which makes many not make the cut.

Re: 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 – 2010 from Australia's island state archived

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Post by asdff »

ProllyInfamous wrote: post #48
asdff wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It died really because you can actually game on home internet unlike in the dialup era.

"MOM HANG UP THE PHONE I'M ZERG-RUSHING!"

I couldn't even play runescape on my dialup connection, not even play and have a laggy experience but play the game at all because they had a speed test check.
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