Average early 2000s LAN party

[hootinnhollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Give this party some good smells

[stinerman@midwest.social]

I was once so broke that I couldn't afford a case for a computer I had.

So I brought my computer to a LAN in a trash bag and set it up on the host's electric stove.

[treczoks@lemmy.world]

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.

[theangryseal@lemmy.world]

It is crazy how fast time goes by, especially if you deal with some kind of trauma. I swear, my divorce was almost a decade ago and I’ve been with my current wife almost as long. Feels like a year maybe. It just slips through your fingers.

I was around 20 when that pic started circulating. I was definitely addicted to counter-strike at that time.

[hupf@feddit.org]

LANtrocity

[dutchkimble@lemy.lol]

Oh I see, that clarifies it

[gift_of_gab@lemmy.world]

Oh you said it. I am still struggling with the fact Covid lockdown began six years ago. Or that my kids are almost the age I was when they were born.

The LANs I went to tended to be Rainbow Six, Unreal Tournament, and Quake 3, and then Aliens vs. Predator 2000. That fuckin' ping sound, before we all had headsets, coming out of three speakers at once, was wild.

[urda@lebowski.social]

https://lanwar.com/ still going strong if you need a LAN party.

[ecb@feddit.org]

Weirdly, WoW was like a constant, ongoing lan party for us.

We would all lug our rigs over to one guys house and play, even if we were in separate raid groups

[ecb@feddit.org]

We used to do 12-hour, all-night Empire Earth games!

[nikkidimes@lemmy.world]

I feel like the static buildup common on trash bags might not be the best for rawdogged computer components

[dr_fetus_jackson@lemmy.world]

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.

[koboldcoterie@pawb.social]

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.

[stinerman@midwest.social]

I'm shocked (haha pun) that it still worked but it did.

Also the cord from the power supply to the outlet ran next to the sink.

[nikkidimes@lemmy.world]

I love this, and I'm so glad nothing went awry lol

[lovablesidekick@lemmy.world]

Wrapped in plastic and the heat rising from all those monitors - I bet that guy was sweating.

[theangryseal@lemmy.world]

We had a terrible old LCD projector we hooked the Dreamcast to for Quake III arena. It would overheat so you couldn’t keep the back on. To block the light and cool it down, we’d sit it in the window with a box fan behind it and taped cardboard up around it.

It lit up the entire street in front of my house.

Most of the guys i played with are dead now.

I’ve been playing Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 a lot recently and I wish so bad I could go back with the skills I’ve devolved and beat them.

Time flies and nothing is permanent. I really miss those guys bad sometimes. Been hitting me hard recently.

[deadpanslim@lemmy.world]

Buying a router from Best Buy and returning it the day after the party. Memories.

[volvoxvsmarla@lemm.ee]

What?? What do you mean with a kid became lion king?

[a_random_idiot@lemmy.world]

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.