K Merritt - Lan Party Inside The Multiplayer Revolution - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: A loving photographic celebration of the energy - drink - fuelled furniture - rearranging multiplayer gaming trend and its nocturnal participants. Before high - speed internet connections and online servers playing a multiplayer PC game meant hauling your bulky monitors and towers to a friend's place convention centre or church basement for a LAN (local area network) party. These sweaty junk - food - enriched glory days represented the origins of real community spirit in computer gaming's early days. Many LAN party attendees were early adopters of new tech so digital cameras abounded at these events. The photos produced by these devices were often low - resolution blurry and badly lit. In their imperfections and limitations they represent the messy ad - hoc approach to computing typical of the LAN party network cables snaking across recreation centre floors a monitor perched on a kitchen counter burned CD copies of games labelled in marker pen. In addition to documenting the nostalgic era of LAN parties the photographs in this book are unique artefacts of a peculiar cultural and technological moment when gaming was tipping over from niche hobby to mainstream obsession. This is the first full - size photobook on this beloved subculture one that existed before the internet took shape and we started carrying it around with us in our pockets.
Title: Lan Party Inside The Multiplayer Revolution
Author(s): K Merritt
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Barcode: 9780500026953
Pages: 176 Pages, 221 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 1/30/2024
Category: Popular Culture