Memories from old LAN parties
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Memories from old LAN parties
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#2So I'm younger than the person who posted this, but my high school did do something called LANfest where we all set up the computers on campus to connect to play games over the local network. But proper LAN parties sound like they were amazing, it's a shame they're not really a thing anymore.
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#4I remember thinking this TCP/IP will never work out, too complex.
Whereas IPX works just perfectly.
DHCP was a god send that proved me wrong. Well, until someone, somewhere forgot to disable its own server...
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#5> If you’re using a 10 Mbit hub and copy the same directory to two Windows SMB hosts simultaneously it is somehow smart enough to make the transfers coincide so it can transmit the same data to both at once. To this day I have no idea what heuristic it used but honest to god, it slowed down the earlier transfer and then went in lockstep file by file for the remainder.
That is really cool.
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#6I'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.
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#7I'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.
A 90s retroLAN would be great...
Playing 90s games, that are rather cheap nowadays.
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#8Are there any LAN parties happening these days on regular basis? How does one become part of that group?
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#9I 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 several days, most lasted upwards of 12 hours.
People didn't game with laptops. You had to bring you whole case, your monitors, accessories. It was great when LCDs came about. Lots of people had intricate setups too, heavy Thermaltakes with watercooling shit.
ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger and that annoying Windows service that let you send pop-up messages to any IP if you hadn't disabled the service.
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#10I'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.
A 90s retroLAN would be great... Playing 90s games, that are rather cheap nowadays.
Probably one of the more viable options because just about anything worth playing in the last 10+ years doesn't have LAN support.