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Revanov t1_iu3d6in wrote

Back in the 90s netcafe. When you wanna play Starcraft multiplayer, you actually have to walk around and look at other people’s screens to see if they’re sc players. Then you have to go up to them and ask them if they wanna play. Afterwards you go and eat together and make a new friend.

Good times.

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Jesus_Cristooooo t1_iu41av8 wrote

I have many fond memories of playing Counter Strike in those janky tweaker dens lol

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nico87ca t1_iu3app8 wrote

A 4090 has probably more power than all GPUs in that festival combined haha

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[deleted] t1_iu3fsa6 wrote

Probably? The riva 128 gpu from 1997 could do 100million floating point operations a second. The 4090 is pretty much 100 teraflops. That is a difference of 1 million. You’d need a million of them to match a 4090.

1995 gpu whatever that may be it’s probably closer to 2/3million times slower

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nico87ca t1_iu3gd5s wrote

I didn't check before posting, and you're blowing my mind lol.

Crazy how fast computing power grew

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Treczoks t1_iu3qhvx wrote

We had similar-sized events at about the same time. I provided some of the network cabling for our events, and we still have loads of coax ethernet cables, t-pieces, and terminators, all with yellow sleeves or painted yellow to make them stand out as "official stuff".

I remember one event over a long weekend in a sport and event hall, where a mis-configured power line provided 400 instead of 230V and killed a load of power supplies. Or the lines at the coffee maker: There was a long bench, and everyone queued their personal mug on that bench when coffee was out and/or in the process of being made. In a coffee machine that took one pack (500g) of ground coffee per run.

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RedMonte85 t1_iu4c4td wrote

I can just imagine the bawls soda flowing freely

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banneryear1868 t1_iu4ejhm wrote

If only this was seen as cool in the 90s lol

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acqz t1_iu3bo6b wrote

Imagine the smell!

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AliBarberTheSecond t1_iu47fxp wrote

Rather not. 3 month old gooch sweat is not something I enjoy either in reality or my imagination

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lifemanualplease t1_iu3g1pq wrote

What did people do at these things?

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heriomortis t1_iu3iepz wrote

Back in these days it wasn't all that much about playing LAN games. There was some of that going on but it tended to be more about copying games from each others and working on demos for the demo competitions.

Many of these things started as demo parties, Dreamhack in 1994 was in a cafeteria belonging to the student union of the nearby university. Much less organized, I don't think there was even a network setup at all. Lots of fond memories of staying up all night programming and always losing the demo compos...

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BrouwStreams t1_iu3mknc wrote

Those where the days.

Just like night openings for games like COD / FIFA / Final Fantasy and such.

Makes me sad those days will 99% certain not return gif

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BananahLife t1_iu46fa9 wrote

For those who don’t follow esports, google dream hack this year. I think CSGO has a million dollar prize pool; probably more for LOL.

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