26 Nostalgic Photos of the Greatest Gathering of Nerds - The LAN Party

Ain't no party like a LAN party. There was this perfect little window in time when PC games had evolved into full blown competitive sports, but the internet was still too slow to handle serious gaming. The solution? Gather the troops, grab your tower and monitor, and haul them over to someone's house for the ultimate nerd summit - the LAN party.

If you never experienced one, here's the drill: unplug your giant beige computer, convince one of your parents to drive you over, and cram into the smallest, hottest, smelliest room imaginable with a dozen other gamers. Everyone would hook their machines together with a mess of cables that looked like a rejected scene from The Matrix. And then… pure magic.

Unreal Tournament, Quake III Arena, Counter-Strike, Warcraft, StarCraft, Medal of Honor, even the original Doom - if it had a multiplayer option, we played it until our eyes burned and our keyboards were covered in Dorito dust.

It was loud, chaotic, and absolutely glorious. I miss it more than I care to admit.

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