Re:The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)
by alibrarydweller on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @11:32PM
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The distinction they're drawing isn't WLAN vs LAN but WAN vs LAN. Remember that in the peak days of the LAN party it was an alternative to gaming on dial-up or DSL - even if you had a good connection it was unlikely the whole game had one. A reasonable Wi-Fi connection today is miles beyond the WAN connections of Y2K.
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Re:The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)
by Thlom on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @03:15AM
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The big LAN parties also had a fat internet connection at a time when the best you could have at home was INSD. But even more important was that everyone at the LAN shared their piracy collections over DC++ or FTP. Good times.
Re:The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)
by embedding-shape on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @05:54AM
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> that everyone at the LAN shared their piracy collections over DC++ or FTP
And that one person sharing their 100GB (virtually unheard of amount of storage at the time) archive of porn, proudly announcing themselves as a "winner" of something at the end of the party.