The I-Series came from humble beginnings

[VibroAxe]

So I was browsing wikipedia at work and found a link to an old BBC news article from 1999 talking about the prequel to the i-series events : Insomnia 99

In the half-light of a darkened theatre - fittingly run by the Ministry of Defence - 300 PC gamers fought each other at the weekend across a corporate-strength network at the UK's biggest-ever LAN party

It's an interesting back story to what is now a regular fixture on the thn calendar! I recommend people read it

BBC News

 

[thatbloke]

And to think we actually used to use CRT monitors...... *shudder*

also:

Over £1,000 in prize money was handed out and, to reduce those lag times even more, the latest Voodoo graphics cards and AMD K6 chips were also up for grabs.

"The latest..." to think how far we've come in 10 years!

I wonder if, in 10 years time, we'll look back to this year and be saying similar things? Like: "LOL, you remember when we used to use only Quad core processors? Now we have our 64-core beasties!"

etc.

 

[Haven]

across a corporate-strength network

Why do I read that as the broken network

*shudders at the thought of corporate port blockage and inadvertant broadcast storms*