• And how many people went to LAN parties?

    Those were the Nerds, the weirdos that spent halft their free time on a computer and talking about how to get faster internet. For the “cool kids” i think a lot were the magazines or someone stealing a VCR from their dads private collection.

    • @jaybone@lemmy.world
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      131 year ago

      Stealing a VCR. Oh man…

      The VCR was the player. You might call the tape or cassette a VHS, as there were two types of cassette. The other less popular being beta max.

    • @bus_factor@lemmy.world
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      81 year ago

      It was more mainstream than you’d think in Norway at least. I was easily the nerdiest one at the local one I attended at the time.

    • @ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works
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      51 year ago

      Every town and city I ever went in the early 2000s to had multiple crowded LAN centers. It was definitely mainstream, and definitely wasn’t just geeks. Pretending file sharing was not mainstream by 2000 is like pretending Star Wars is only for nerds.

      Way out of touch.

    • @Zpiritual@lemm.ee
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      41 year ago

      Eeh, swede here but a majority of men in my generation (90s) were probably at dreamhack at one point or another during their teens. Not to mention homeparties. Girls is less obviously but many of those went too