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Aug 31, 2025 1:21 PM
smartguy1337
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sevro77
I told you last time Billy Mitchell, you can't use my printer, why you keep bringing a cable?
RagnartheCat
My son is actually going to a LAN party next weekend believe it or not, and they'll most likely play Mechwarrior.
DrKonrad
And you had to make a second trip to carry the CRT monitor
CrimsonPermanentAssurance
My high resolution crt computer monitor weighed 62 pounds
FPAlpha
The case was not the problem, the monitors were. Bitch ass heavy and unwieldy things and you were willingly risking your life if you had to descend or climb stairs to where the LAN party was happening.
First 2 hours setup of the network and massive file sharing before a single game was played and then it was junk food, sugar water with coloring and artificial taste and if your trash talk was not good enough you were the punching bad for the night.
Good times.
StillNotYouTube
Kind of annoying that right when everyone switched to LCD's, LAN parties died.
FPAlpha
Yeah well, it got replaced by online matchups but there was something special getting a group of friends together in a room and spending the weekend gaming.
IliveIdyeIliveagain
This guy is grabbing the monitor on the left shoulder for sure
frosss
Was gonna say, this is the easy part. Then 15" CRT is the thing you need backpack straps for.
DdCno1
I had a 17" Trinitron and the bright idea to go dual-monitor with a second one. The desk did not survive, but the monitors did.
ePluribus
Looks almost the same as a LAN party kit from the 90s, except we had small beige buildings with one giant window to lug around as well.
CP3oh
The refrigerator-sized 20-inch CRT monitor is loaded up on a pack mule, offscreen.
SterlingArcherSecretAgent
I made my own back then.
Went to the thrift store and got me a sewing machine and some old backpacks.
Tore apart the backpacks and combined them to serve this purpose.
Think I made it in '95 or so, used it for many years, probably a decade.
StiinkySkunk
I used to take my 21" CRT with me, the pc was light in comparison
headlessness
Where’s the 19” CRT?
Reidsb
I still have one of these straps.
CanPeoplePleaseUseTags
From straight from
SwissScars
my first "portable" IBM
WolfWings
My school had a pair of Commodore SX-64s for historical reasons, I still to this day love that form factor.
DdCno1
My first portable (mostly) IBM compatible:
Alurkerforcedtologin
Why the parallel cable? You connecting to a printer at this lan party?
Itwasmyname
Given the screws on both ends, this is likely either for a scanner or a serial cable.
Chaben
Was thinking the same
DoctorFriendly
I used to store lots of stuff on a parallel ZIP drive. There are other uses, like peer-to-peer IPX type connections as well.
JackieTreehornProductions
688 Attack Sub - direct peer to peer connection!
Alurkerforcedtologin
If you're doing peer to peer over ipx, maybe that's the 2000s (old school starcraft anyone?) but I would think that would be like more late 80s to mid '90s.
DoggosAreLife
Agree, especially since he has a TP cable there too.
vodkaho
I had one that was a backpack setup, that included the ability to hold a 17-in monitor. CRT, of course...
bad1080
no disk drives?
JDJersey
Empty box, for promotional purposes only
bad1080
now that i looked at it some more this is ai generated, look at the keyboard
P0werSurg3
It's a point-of-sale keyboard
Elkarlo77
And a Printer Cable not a VGA Cable
bad1080
gotta print those high scores! xD
Revelant
No intel stickers or faded yellow on case + Either that is a LPT cable or Serial cable at the back. If thats the case Ethernet wouldnt have been the choice it would have be token ring or coaxial network cards back then. This screams sleeper pc build. But keyboard looks like AI so I guess AI of what they thought a LAN kit was.
FredFlipflop
No straps on the back and front?!!
TheGreatAtomsk
i had that carrier - was one of the many extras of my dfi lanparty mainboard <3. oh and no - that's not a "lan party kit" from the 2000s. no optical drives, a cheapo mouse and why would you bring a lpt cable? that looks more like a point-of-sales kit from the 2000s.
AveryLynel
Keyboard layout strongly reinforces this theory.
Calicoastin818
they used an LPT cable to directly connect to another PC to transfer files
TheGreatAtomsk
you are referring to null-modem cables. though there were db25 serial ports in the early days, they weren't common on pc. there it would be the ubiquitous de9 port. also these connections max out at theoretical 14.4kb/s, so not really an option for file sharing, considering in that day and age 100mbit ethernet was common and fun stuff like port trunking was easily accessible.
Calicoastin818
here’s the thing not everyone had a switch or access to one that’s when they would pull out these babies for Pc to Pc direct connect
Zelor42
No. In that case you pulled out your crossover ethernet cable. Null-modem cables went out of style years and years before. Nobody used that for serious file sharing on a lan party.
captaincafeman
Only useful for sharing configuration files and two-player Doom. Coax with IPX was better for file sharing pre-Ethernet but the termination and serial connections were a PITA in a shared house!
JustSomePersonThere
You were there.
MarcUK
The PC has no drives, not even an "intel inside" sticker. This is probably just a photo to sell the carrying harness.
StillNotYouTube
I built many computers with that exact case.
Whitemannatee
Mine always started with three trips from my Mom's car to get everything in my buddy's house. In fairness, I also had to lug my Viewsonic monitor in as well.
zanaria
Not just LAN parties... When I took a programming course the instructor told us that a couple years before there was a guy who carried around a full sized desktop pc in his backpack and would hook it up each day for class...
DoctorFriendly
I will bet you good money that rig has a GeForce 3 Ti-500, Counterstrike and Serious Sam on it.
LetsEatGrandpaCommasSaveLives
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlNGw4OHZxZ2x2cWFobTBxb21vdWxzdjltc3VpejFoNW05dnBsMjdzaiZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/7mI0mLnprQCOs/200w.mp4
davaloha
Command and conquer 2 most likely too
baals
Had a rig like that I took to a q3a tournament
DrKleiner007
Doom 2, if he’s a good kid. Unreal Tournament and Quake 3. Age of Empires… ah, ten years ago, those where the days…
Cutwail
My lan were mostly on UT 2K4, Dota, CS, War3.
I didn't had neat lan setup tho, i had a Asus Vento 3600, that case was a tank to move, not even talking about my 22.9inch monitor lmao.
llandy
Voodoo 3dfx Diamond Monster 3D card..
DoctorFriendly
I had an S3 Savage 4 specifically for the community-hacked UT "metal" drivers.
r0b0tc0rpse
This easily predates the GeForce 3.
Cutwail
https://youtu.be/pXXmYxPkcM8?feature=shared
Nemacol
Broodwar
Gryphonosiris
I have a carrier like that now. Don't use it as much as my case is just WAY too heavy. I use a collapsible hand truck instead, and a collapsible wagon for the monitor.
SuperFlamingTominoHead
In his left he hand he has a 0,5m x 0.5m x 0.5m box with his monitor.
IBroughtASpareDrainpipe
He's going to need a monitor.
TiroDvD
AI SLOP. Look at the keyboard.
cheesedogs
No cd tray or 3.5 floppy drive.
ruinah
That's because it's a demo unit. Pretty common for trying to sell these things. As someone else pointed out, it's simply been mangled by AI upscaling (and reversed for some reason..)
YouRadicalizedMe
Good eye lad . I missed it myself at first
TiroDvD
I didn't notice it. A reply to a comment below did. I just made a plain first comment so that it would be noticed.
DreamPhreak
Fun fact, the picture itself is not actually ai slop. Its a product image for that carrying strap with an empty tower (hence no cd/floppy trays). The original image is 400x400 pixels, which is very small, so someone out there used an ai image upscaler to make it larger, and that ai upscaler is what caused the keys to get all fucked. Original:
Mortbise
Keyboard isn't any less nonsensical
WolfWings
Standard point-of-sale keyboard, there's similar ones used on stock-trading, WEY Smart Touch has the same sort of 'no gaps' arrow-key block.
WolfWings
In fact it's where Cherry (yes them) started, and why they made industrial-grade keyswitches. Cherry MX 8100.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
WolfWings
I was that filthy casual that didn't even bring a mouse for their laptop and would win FPS tournaments with just the touchpad. XD
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
or the mouse is in his pocket but it's 𝘄𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀