• Treczoks@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 hour ago

    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.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Yo even homies headphones are a throwback.

    You know he was using that with this on his trips to and from school every day.

  • FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee
    2·
    2 hours ago

    I had some of those headphones like hat guy has. They were uncomfortable. Strange design.

    Damn I miss LAN parties. Ultimately it was World of Warcraft that killed them in my social circles.

    • odd@feddit.org
      10·
      5 hours ago

      Probably they were the best player and they gave them all the handicaps available. 😅

  • Grass@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    5 hours ago

    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

  • sleepmode@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    7 hours ago

    We played Unreal Tournament mostly because it ran really well on Linux. Rarely had LAN parties but it worked fine over dial-up. Kinda wild. Miss those days. We did a lot of dumpster diving because people would just throw everything out when they left college.

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
    91·
    10 hours ago

    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.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      45·
      10 hours ago

      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.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      12·
      10 hours ago

      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…?

      • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
        17·
        9 hours ago

        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

  • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
    25·
    9 hours ago

    So, I missed LAN parties, but me and my buddies used to all get together (normally at my house) and play console games and d&d, and I feel like it has pretty similar vibes.

    Some seriously amazing times. The thing I remember most distinctly, though, is the smell. A dozen 12-15 year old boys who don’t yet understand the necessity of deodorant, all crammed into a bedroom, basically sitting on top of each other. The smell was loud. My room used to reek of it for 5 or 6 days, just in time for next Saturday to roll around and stink it up again. Lol.

    • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      12·
      8 hours ago

      Me and my pals were pretty good about hygiene, regularly showered when we all spent the weekend at our pal’s, but good God, when someone would forget a bowl of some food or other over the weekend, or it’d get shoved back behind a wall of empty soda cans and bulky monitors for the whole week? 🤢

      • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
        5·
        5 hours ago

        I mean, I don’t think any of us were particularly bad about hygiene? It was more just sort of boy-stink. Lol. In fairness, it was coastal Virginia, summer time, in an un air conditioned room, with the only time the door got opened being when one of us had to pee. Lol. To be honest, I remember it almost fondly. Like, the stale smell of it when every one was gone was horrid, but the smell of the room, the hot TV and console, and all my buddies crammed together wasn’t bad when it was going on. Just during the week afterwards. Lol.

        That said, I have some unique opinions on smells, so grain of salt and all lol

        But also, yes, God, the moldy Chinese food-- yuck

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    9 hours ago

    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.

  • Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world
    33·
    10 hours ago

    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.

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 hours ago

      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.