For the niche gaming community of PC gamers, there’s nothing as unique as the LAN party.
To those who aren’t familiar, LAN parties are gatherings where groups of people meet, in person, to play a multiplayer video game over a Local Area Network. Players abandon the anonymity of the Internet to compete face-to-face.
While they’ve been happening for years, LAN parties have changed a lot over the years.
“I remember meeting in someone’s garage where everyone had these big beige towers,” said Johnnie Rodriques, technical marketing engineer at Intel. “We begged or borrowed equipment from places we worked to be able to network everything together, and it was a nightmare.”
Over time, Rodriques said, the technology advanced and the equipment improved. “This helped the garage LAN party grow into these huge, amazing public events.”
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