[HN Gopher] 1584 LAN party photos from 1996 - 2010 from Australi...
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1584 LAN party photos from 1996 - 2010 from Australia's island
state archived
Author : issung
Score : 30 points
Date : 2024-12-24 00:40 UTC (3 days ago)
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| issung wrote:
| Hi everyone. Today I finished my latest project which was
| archving 1584 photos (+2 videos) of LAN parties in Tasmania
| ranging from 1996 to 2010. Previously these photos were lost to
| time until I got in contact with the right people. Looking
| through the photos is a great blast of nostalgia, I hope you get
| some enjoyment from looking through them too!
|
| https://issung.com/posts/lanphotosarchive/
| Keppl8R wrote:
| Good times Thank you
| Faaak wrote:
| I miss LAN parties... I miss the custom cases, the fancy
| drawings, the spilled sugary drinks that stuck to the table, and
| the open shares where you would copy the whole `Movies` folder on
| a 100Mbits connection..
|
| I modded my case of course, and it was crappy. I'd integrated a
| glass window on the side, so people could (would!) look at my
| custom water cooling setup. And of course, the glass (held by hot
| glue), would fall down at the most unfortunate time. Great
| memories!
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| I never understood the appeal of all the gaudy gamer PC
| aesthetics, just as a piece of furniture you keep at home it
| looks ridiculous.
|
| But thinking of it in the context of lugging your PC to a LAN
| party, now I'm picturing a fork of Fast and Furious but instead
| of all the tricked out cars revving their engines with their
| hoods popped, its a row of gamer PCs running DirectX
| benchmarks, and the length people go to make an original piece
| of art out of their motherboard suddenly make sense.
| exabrial wrote:
| Is it possible to still play something like CS 1.6 on a LAN
| without needing an internet connection on modern computers?
| Occasionally I'll pop over to play-cs.com but curious if there'a
| a local mode...
|
| My first LAN Party was sponsored by the Uni... Quake3. The two
| dept sysadmins took on the freshmen class (16 of us) and smoked
| us. Was hilarious.
| xandrius wrote:
| I wonder what could be today's alternative to the environments of
| LAN parties of early 00s (I never attended to previous ones).
|
| Even if one were to recreate the events, I feel lots of the
| activities of these meetings (meeting the selected few gamers
| face-to-face, sharing media, and only finally gaming) are
| somewhat obsolete or not needed anymore.
|
| Part of me wishes we still had these but that would mean removing
| lots of improvements and putting up barriers to entry to
| computers, games and the Internet.
|
| Dunno, I might be rambling but perhaps one should just be happy
| to have been part of that scene back then and move on?
|
| For me, the closest I got to that has been participating to
| hackathons (although many misses) even though those tend to be
| less stressful than the LAN parties.
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| One thing that strikes me about the photos I've flipped through
| so far, is being that LAN parties rarely have adequate sunlight,
| they're pretty consistently flash photography on film, and I
| think this effects how people respond (or are otherwise caught in
| the act) to having their photo taken. Nowadays phones have
| sensitive enough sensors to not need flash, and have infinite
| storage so you're unlikely to just take one 'snap' and move on --
| so for anyone in the field of view of a person holding up their
| smart phone, you don't know precisely what moment was captured,
| or whether its a video being recorded, and I just think there's a
| subtle shift in behavior when you don't know whether an image is
| being captured or not.
|
| Just thinking out loud, as someone who's recently picked up film
| photography again to see how it changes what pictures I get.
| Thanks for the effort collecting all these in one place.
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