LAN parties aren't dead! Some of us are keeping the magic alive. I throw LAN parties at my house about twice a year. The hardest part, as i've gotten older, has been scheduling. Now I need to send save-the-dates 2 months in advance, and the length is capped at about 12 hours. When I was a teenager we would go all night :)

I am moderately obsessed with LAN parties, so I built a file sharing tool for LAN parties specifically, if you want to check it out https://justinbecker.dev/blog/2026/05/16/why-i-built-lanbuck...

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mikepurvis 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No modern LAN party discussion is complete without reference to kentonv's houses:

https://kentonshouse.com/

https://lanparty.house/

	▲	bdavbdav an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I love this technically, but part of the magic was all setting up trestle tables, sitting in someone’s garage / outbuilding, and it all being a bit raw. I vividly remember cutting a hole in the side of a Shuttle XPC case to fit the fan of a GPU someone had bought over for me at one. That was all part of the experience for me.

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ramgine 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There’s still a few large ones. LANfest and quakecon are two that come to mind. Also LAN all night.

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stackghost 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

>I have on multiple occasions gone player to player, typing the IP into their address bar for them.

Sounds like you play with some serious noobs, friend.