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I hosted a LAN party for my friends because I wanted to practice setting up a small network. It’s funny to think that was once semi-challenging.

Not funny. Major PTSD coming back!!!

The pain inflicted when someone had to leave the LAN and the BNC chain had to be broken and reconfigured....

Or... Someone getting totally owned in Doom cracking it and disconnecting a terminator.

Great times.

The “DHCP server” for us was a sheet of paper where you’d write down the IP you were going to ifconfig.

Wingate memories coming back

But then it would take 4 hours to figure out Windows networking in your computer. (Been there done that)

Too hard to get a ride on a random weekday night before any of us could drive :D

Yeah, my parents refused to buy a second line so this is what we did.