January 23, 2006
LAN Party
Bring Your Own Computer (BYOC)
"A LAN party is a temporary, sometimes spontaneous gathering of people together with their computers, which they connect together in a local area network (LAN) primarily for the purpose of playing multiplayer computer games. These LANs come in various sizes, from the very small (2 people) to the very large (4000+ people). Small parties can form spontaneously, but large ones usually require a fair amount of planning and preparation on the part of the organizing team. The term 'LAN party' is sometimes incorrectly applied to Gaming centers and Internet cafes. Although offering comparable services, LAN party events differ significantly in that they are generally BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer) and are not permanently set up." Wikipedia
Last year in Sweden "(n)early 6,000 young people lugged their desktops through the snow to a convention center, where they hooked them up together and played video games for three days and three nights, with only occasional breaks for sleep...
The reason why these events happen is because you want to meet the person in real life. You play on the Internet all the time and you see their name. But you don't know what they look like," he says. "You don't know what they're really like in person." Cyber Athlete 'Fatal1ty', 60 Minutes.
Posted by jo at January 23, 2006 05:40 PM
