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to this day i still havent had the kind of gaming experience I had as a teen in a LAN cafe playing Left 4 Dead with my buddies in the early 2000s. Was shocked t
by swyx 3y ago
to this day i still havent had the kind of gaming experience I had as a teen in a LAN cafe playing Left 4 Dead with my buddies in the early 2000s. Was shocked to come to America and find that they're not a thing in the US. y'all missed out. There's something tribal and guttural about hooting and hollering over every victory and loss and taunting and screen sniping your friends IRL.
- time0ut 3y agoThere were a couple my city in the late 90s and early 2000s. I remember playing Unreal Tournament and Counter Strike with my friends there in high school. None lasted very long though.
- dharmab 3y agoIn high school through about 2010 I helped organize LAN parties. It was an underground thing. We had our own caching servers and networking equipment so two dozen rigs wouldn't overwhelm our hosts' internet. It was as much about sharing warez, helping each other with tech, trading parts for our rigs and hanging out as it was about the games. We'd go thirty hours straight then sleep it off for a whole day. Fantastic memories and some of the people from that scene were later my professional colleagues.