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On the shelf next door is still the box with the hundreds of coax ethernet cables, the T-connectors, and 50 Ohm terminators from the LAN parties in the 90s. Before they were called “LAN parties” and used for gaming.
I remember making a serial cable so my friend and I could play command and conquer against each other. Good times.
Oh yes! We had those, too (as my friend had no networking card), and playing with the red and blue CDs was fun! This must have been somewhere '95 or '96.
And BTW: I made those networking cables myself, too. They had bright yellow sleeves, and the terminators and T-pieces had been painted yellow to tag them as mine.
Oh man, I remember after we got network cards trying to make an Ethernet cable out of a bunch of old power cords. The error rate was through the roof but it actually worked for like an hour. We eventually walked to the local RadioShack and bit the bullet on buying a cable 😆
I’ve done loads of coax cables back then, not just for those meetings, and later made quite a number of tp cables, too (as part of my job back then). But I had the tools for cutting, crimping, testing, and verifying them and the training, so that was not an issue.
that reminds me of when I was telling a friend about the kid who became lion king. he didn’t believe me and when I tried to find it, any trace of the story had disappeared from this plane of existence
Please tell us more
This one kid actually became The Lion King.
Oh I see, that clarifies it
What?? What do you mean with a kid became lion king?
That’s, like, $80 of duct tape in today’s money
Fortunately, wages have increased to match, right?
Narrator: They hadn’t.
Yeah but just think of how much GDP has grown!
Line go up so good.
Right?
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Lan parties were basically the highlight of my highschool career. I learned how to set up and configure complex networks just so I could be ‘that guy’ that knew how to fix problems at lan parties. Sitting in someone’s garage all night with 12-16 sweaty, sleep deprived people playing Counterstrike or Unreal Tournament or Worms Armageddon was the absolute pinnacle of good times in a rural small town.
We used to do 12-hour, all-night Empire Earth games!
Aww, man - I’d forgotten about Empire Earth, that game was absolutely the shit at the time. Wish it’d gotten more attention and credit.
I never really experienced this, I was mostly a console gamer.
Curious what you do for work now? Related to IT or games in any way…?
I did computer repair for quite a few years after high school, then worked in IT at a game company, and currently work in the software testing industry, so… yes! Hah
Chad life.
With the current quality of MS products, every office drone works in the software testing industry.
Thank you for the reply! Amazing. I hope you’re still passionate about what you do!
A bunch of people in the same room beating Serious Sam from start to finish while someone played an eclectic playlist of hiphop on the aux for over 24 hours. Those were the halcyon days.
Halcyon & on & on…
LAN parties were always a great place to hang out.
They still are! I throw two or three a year and never have an empty seat.
What about an empty ceiling?
Got it covered (Halloween LAN from last year)
Complete with a ribcage mounted AP
edit: Auto correct messed this up. 🌈
I just thought they forgot the original dude on the ceiling and this is him now.
I would like to be your friend please
What if the guy had to pee?
diaper
There’s a bucket on the floor
Give this party some good smells
Duct tape isn’t good at binding to skin, after it gets sweaty it can come off fairly easily. So this guy could wriggle free if he really wanted to.
Spoken like someone who’s made a harrowing escape or two.
Or witnessed one or two escapes
And just like that…I’m planning a LAN party for my birthday. Done. It’s been close to 7 years but I want one.
one of my great regrets (Of a great many, I’l concede) is that I never had the opportunity to attend a lan party in my younger days… In these days of the photo.
I have always looked at this picture with a mixture of jealousy and admiration.
My last LAN Partay was in 2016, that one weekend where Overwatch wat F2P, and we wanted to play Dota but had a party of 6. It was fantastic
The entirety of my career was founded on my ability to build stable network and systems to run Duke Nukem 3d at lan parties using 10base2 networks and Rendition Verite video cards with a side of 3dfx.
at lan parties using 10base2 networks and
“Anyone have another BNC terminator? Oh, also the IPX network number we’re using is 11111111.”
Rendition Verite video cards
Nobody could afford the Canopus, it was a room full of Sierra Screamin’ 3D cards at best
with a side of 3dfx.
A dedicated 3D card in addition to a good 2D card?! We’d dream, but didn’t have that kind of cash.
Full disclosure: I was in my mid 20’s and a factory worker in the later 90’s, so I had a little more cash to afford my hobby. It still hurt though.
I had one with a weird pass through cable. Mainly played EF2000 on it.
Why is homie in the back duplicating
There are 3 monitors on the table so I think it’s two guys overlapping.
I don’t think so, same haircut, same clothes, same build?
It was 2002. There was only one haircut.
Providing my weekend LAN party with the Warcraft 3 beta was the highlight of my early nerd career
Back in the early aughts, I worked for a company that did tech support for Adobe products. The company lost the contract to Adobe, and we all were laid off. For the couple of months before our final day we would play Quake while doing tech support. Our numbers were never better.
Buying a router from Best Buy and returning it the day after the party. Memories.
