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02530aam a22002535i 4500 001 98123166FC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240417010124 008 240129s2024 xx 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0500026955 020 $a 9780500026953 040 $a TLC $e rda $d SILO 041 $a eng 100 $a K., Merritt, $e Author $0 (local)tmpaut1877482839306100 245 00 $a Lan Party : $b Inside the Multiplayer Revolution 264 1 $a [Place of publication not identified] : $b W W Norton & Co Inc, $c 2024 300 $a 170 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm 520 $a A loving photographic celebration of the energy drink-fueled, furniture-rearranging, multiplayer gaming trend and its nocturnal participants.Transport yourself back to the golden era of multiplayer PC gaming, when the internet was a place you built with your friends and the only in-game purchases were pizza deliveries. Ad hoc and adventurous, sweaty, and unsupervised, LAN (local area network) parties embodied an open and optimistic era in computing thatâs been forgotten in todayâs always-online digital world. Featuring personal recollections alongside hundreds of crowdsourced photographs ranging from kitchen-table gatherings to massive convention hall-filling tournaments, LAN Party will bring you back to the Mountain Dew-fueled glory days of gaming.In addition to documenting the nostalgic era of LAN parties, the photographs are unique artifacts of the peculiar cultural and technological moment, when gaming was tipping over from niche hobby to mainstream obsession. They reveal not just the home decor and personal fashion styles at the turn of the millennium but also a different world, one that existed before the internet took shape and we started carrying it around with us in our pockets.True to the community spirit of the bookâs content, author Merritt K pitched the idea for this publication through Twitter and received over 100,000 likes. LAN Party is her sought-after idea brought to life in a high-quality photobook format and includes exclusive contributions from the likes of Naomi Clark (faculty at the NYU Game Center), Kat Bailey (IGN), and more. 650 1 $a Video games $x History $0 (DLC)sj2021050639 650 0 $a Video gamers $0 (DLC)sh2005007322 650 0 $a Local area networks (Computer networks) $x Computer networks $0 (DLC)sh 85077909 941 $a 1 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417020910.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=98123166FC8011EE9ABF7B513DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search