Average early 2000s LAN party

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Kali did not exist my son

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Can you imagine how bad his neck must hurt by the end of the night? They could have at least spared another loop to keep his forehead supported

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He’s the only one with a flat screen: serves him right

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Oh, give him a break it's probably a dual scan passive. He's playing Doom through a gray smeary mess. But you didn't have to log a CRT to the basement... So there is that

ivanafterall ☑️

First game that caused me to accidentally stay up until the sun rose (multiple times).

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We played the hell out of q3 starting with beta because it ran on Linux, macOS classic and windows, and my crew had all those. Riva tnt, g3 tower, amd k6-2, 10-base-T hub.

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I remember making a serial cable so my friend and I could play command and conquer against each other. Good times.

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Yeah but just think of how much GDP has grown!

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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.

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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

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The TNT was a beast! I ran it on a k6-2 also. Unfortunately it crapped out and I replaced it with an MX400 which I still have (I have a problem). We all played with a myriad of platforms. One guy was on a friggin' Alpha that he warmed his feet with under his desk. We also played Quake but for some reason we were obsessed with the silliness of UT. MMMMM MONSTER KILLL

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I had a pair too. They were roughly finished and would dig into your skin. Also didn't sound very good. Cool idea though..

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Give this party some good smells

stinerman

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.

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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.

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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.

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