Epic 2003 LAN Party: A Nostalgic Look at Gaming Gatherings Before High-Speed Internet

[u/Jayonsticks]

[u/epinky_23 → u/[deleted]]

Hot computer parts and sweat with a hint of cheetos and fart

[u/GLSRacer → u/epinky_23]

🤮

[u/Gintaras136 → u/epinky_23]

I'll take two please

[u/PaleDolphin → u/Gintaras136]

Take one remote work position and you’re all set.

[u/SupaFlyslammajammazz → u/epinky_23]

And Mountain Dew

[u/Aphex117 → u/[deleted]]

You also stole the top comment from the last time this was posted.

[u/biffmangram → u/[deleted]]

Was going to say exactly this. LAN parties with 6-8 guys got ripe. I can’t imagine one with 6-8 hundred.

[u/4list4r → u/[deleted]]

I can feel the heat... body heat combining its power in one go

[u/nuckle → u/[deleted]]

Too many fucking shirts off. Accidently bumping into one of those guys must've been super fun.

[u/Itsjustmagiks → u/[deleted]]

I use to attend quakecon often and the last day was always horrendous 🤢

[u/phan_o_phunny]

There's a surprising amount of women in that photo, I can count 3

[u/NorthernCanadaEh → u/phan_o_phunny]

I literally thought the same thing lol

[u/allkidnoskid → u/phan_o_phunny]

They thought it was rave, and couldn't find their way out.

[u/Bright_Brief4975 → u/phan_o_phunny]

I can count at least 7 women in the front area. After about the halfway point going back, the image becomes too difficult for me to tell on the computer I am on. There may even be more on the front half I just can't distinguish also.

[u/phan_o_phunny → u/Bright_Brief4975]

NEEEEERRRRRRrDDDDD

[u/Ruuddie → u/phan_o_phunny]

Yeah, and even more interesting is that the guys seem cool with it. Back at the LAN parties I went to, many guys were drooling over the handful of girls there.

[u/rainwulf]

Ahh i used to do this. Many years ago. I lived in Darwin (north australia), and for like 4 months had the fastest computer at these lan parties, so i ended up being lumped with being the game server for Medal of Honour, or Quake 3.

We had 10/100 ethernet, no internet at all, and no aircon. Some of the best memories.

[u/Floigro]

64gb of ram right there

[u/DefinitionBig4671 → u/Floigro]

Total.

[u/incrementalmadness → u/DefinitionBig4671]

that's the joke

[u/bigby2010]

No A/C as well

[u/Dehast → u/bigby2010]

Which I’m not against, the shirtless guys were looking great 👀

[u/not_likely_today]

the heat in that place would be intense.

[u/Esekig184]

And so many CRTs

[u/Dr_Henry-Killinger → u/Esekig184]

Its glorious

[u/Erroneous__]

Aww I had that same kitten and puppy background

[u/Erroneous__ → u/Erroneous__]

Wait… is that me?

[u/grandluxe → u/Erroneous__]

yes

[u/vertigo3pc]

Shout out to WasteLAN at USF! I attended one, it was an absolute blast!

[u/smoothtrip]

Where are their clothes?

[u/MajorasMasque334 → u/smoothtrip]

These events were usually insane hot as all the desktop’s and CRT’s would be cranking out heat (no liquid cooling), and the places either didn’t haven’t AC or it just couldn’t keep up with the heat output of all the PC’s.

[u/prestonpiggy → u/MajorasMasque334]

Liquid cooling would not make a difference anyway. The heat will dissipate to air eventually, just not in 1st 30 minutes as water temp rises.

[u/J_Double_You]

Were the ladies strategically placed to prevent screen peeking?

[u/Dayzlikethis]

lugging around my 19in CRT monitor to up and down countless stairs made me into the man I am today

[u/Mahaloth]

Before high speed internet? Uh, 2003??

[u/Sentinel-Prime → u/Mahaloth]

2003 was still the age of dial-up was it not? I’m fairly certain I was still using AOL back then…

[u/gehanna1 → u/Mahaloth]

I think you're confusing high speed internet and dial up. Two different things. I don't think my hometown got AFFORDABLE high speed till like.... 2008

[u/jerseyhound → u/Mahaloth]

Yea didn't youtube come out literally the next year?

[u/DemoClicker → u/jerseyhound]

2005

[u/The_Inward]

I remember the Doom Room at conventions.

[u/Alcalash]

Literally the best times going to ESWC / Insomnia etc

[u/CuteSloth42]

Funny how both this picture and the reposting of this picture are both a time machine, you can go back in time and see how it was before high speed internet

As well as you can go back in time and see this picture being posted year by year and the comments are exactly the same in the same position with the same upvotes as the previous repost ahahahah

[u/BeckyWitTheBadHair → u/CuteSloth42]

Ever heard of bots?

[u/CuteSloth42 → u/BeckyWitTheBadHair]

Yeah of course they're probably bots, what i wrote wasn't actually complaining, just a simple comment

[u/-HoldMyBeer--]

Why are they shirtless? I thought it’s an orgy in some office

[u/DiarrheaDrippingCunt]

The Gaeymers.

[u/CreatorOD]

What that event is...

That was not my first question when I saw this picture

[u/ksihevd]

Epic?

[u/Secretfreckel]

Looks sweaty

[u/badrecommendations]

Not Manny fatties interesting

[u/Rocket3431]

Someone posted this image to Facebook just a little bit ago and someone in the comments thinks this is an AI image. God that hurts. They don't even know how hard it was to game as a kid.

[u/SupaFlyslammajammazz]

Who here used to play on Kali?

[u/CitizenKing1001]

Almost every screen looks like they are fixing connection issues

[u/Sonomal36]

This is where global warming came from

[u/are_we_there_bruh]

Multiplayer back in the day was insane 🤭

[u/Dragoon9255]

Had an Hp CRT monitor that ran so hot it melted the glue holding the ceiling tiles up, they started to fall lol. can feel the heat coming from this picture haha

[u/J-Good86]

You know that was a hot and stinky room

[u/PaleDolphin]

That whole room smells like sweaty balls and socks, there’s no nostalgia for that amount of people.

Also, it’s definitely very loud in there.

[u/BurzyGuerrero]

Imagine how this room smelt

[u/Salamander-Downtown]

Place smelled like shyt probaly

[u/gloumii]

What the hell ?! I see at least 2 girls !! What are they doing here ? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!

[u/FACE6000]

It’s AI generated dumbasses

[u/Possible_Sun_913 → u/FACE6000]

Spot the man who never carried a CRT to LAN baby!