I miss early 2000s LAN parties.
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I was the idiot that always brought the full tower and the biggest 14" CRT.
It was stupid, until people realized that I had brought all 1000mhz.
Leave some pussy for the rest of us...
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I still regularly go to LANs and sometimes host them. But have to fly to most of them. Some still have that 2000s charm.
ThinkGeek or somewhere used to sell one of these things that also had staps to carry it on your back. I always wanted one, but at the same time I didn't have any friends who also had PCs to have anywhere to take it for actual LAN parties. I'd just join them at the game cafe that used to be here. Used to carry around a usb drive with my configs for games I played at home because the cafe computers would always just get reset to defaults.
I'm actually curious... What are these called? I want one for boxes this shaped.
The one I had was called a GearGrip Pro.
Modern version:
Some SFFPC cases even have handles.
I can SMELL this image ❤️ Stale pizza, sweat mixed with dusty air, the smokers who just got back in, food trampled into the floor, empty beer cans…
The ravers had warehouse gigs but we all ended the same - bleary eyed and smelly people having the time of their lives, regrettably packing it up and reentering the real world. I miss LAN parties.
I got myself one of these sexy little boxes. Holds a full ATX board, 2 5.25 bays, 2 hot swappable 3.5 bays, and two internal 3.5 bays.
Coolermaster HAF XB Evo. Really wish they'd do a redesign of it to remove a bunch of vents that don't have dust covers. That and some better cable management
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me? I'll have you know my MMR in Battlefield 3 is in the top 1%, and I am the top sniper in my squad. You are nothing to me but just another target. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me? Think again, squid. As we speak I am contacting the top players at my E-Sports training center so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that frags you instantly every time you respawn. I will destroy your K/D ratio, you little turd. I will shit fury all over you and you'll be left mashing keys and replaying the tutorial until you can shoot straight again.
Weird, I was just thinking about my PC strap that I have no idea where it went.
I think I used it more for taking parcels to the post office than I did my PC tower. The thing was surprisingly useful.
Why the parallel cable tho?
Pc-to-pc direct communication via parallel cable was a thing. I had completely forgotten about it
DVI or VGA monitor cable maybe?
Might be a serial cable for null modem play
That's how old the picture is.
Printing scores?
Unironically, what is that kind of strap called? I have a (much smaller) PC begging for one.
Searching "PC tower carrying strap" brings up numerous options on Google. Looks like you can pick one up for ~$20.
I, too, want to know what that strap is called... For a friend
Geargrip! They sponsored one of our LAN events back in the early 2000's. Great stuff.
I still have mine :) I still use it every few years, though just for moving the pc to a new appartment, it's been forever since I was on a LAN party... Though mine is the basoc model, without the attachments for keaboard and cables
I still have this GearGrip beauty somewhere amongst my circa 2000 LAN Gear. LPANE for life
If I wanted a portable MS-DOS PC I'd either build one using PC-104 in a smaller case or I'd just build myself a WeeCee.