I still manage to attend lots of LAN parties in the UK! The major one - several thousand - Insomnia (although I volunteer for that), and a host of smaller ones

I still manage to attend lots of LAN parties in the UK! The major one - several thousand - Insomnia (although I volunteer for that), and a host of smaller ones with a much more community feel, such as StratLAN. Is the feeling slightly different to what I imagine it used to be? Yes, as if the Internet goes down, then many games stop working - but then at the smaller ones (ie Strat), I find I spend more of my time chatting to like-minded people, playing board games, etc. I even have a friend that comes over from NL for it sometimes! LANs aren't dead quite yet :)