[sonicanatidae]

LAN parties were cool, imo and led to interesting things like this pic that's been on the interwebs for a very long time.

https://assetsio.reedpopcdn.com/duct-taped_gamer_1.jpg?width...

I still have a 48-port Cisco Switch that we used for these, back in the day. It's 10/100, so that far back. ;)

[jasonwatkinspdx]

Yeah, we never taped anyone to the ceiling but that was very much the vibe of our regular little 12 person group. The host lived at his parents house (college student) and they had an addition on the side of the garage that we packed into.

A big deal for us was pooling money to buy a 24 port 10 mbit switch back when those were new and fancy. Such a huge improvement over having to shut down the whole party and redo coax connections because one person in the middle of the line wanted to leave early.

[sonicanatidae]

I was the IT connection. I worked with the gear daily, so it was easy to borrow gear or just MitM it when it was headed for the dumpster.

I kept it because memories, but it's a big ass rack switch, so it may go the way of the dodo someday.