QuickCheck: Did Cyberjaya once host the world's longest LAN party?


The scene at Cyber Fusion 2009 once they hit the 40-hour mark. (CC BY-SA 2.0)

LAN parties were a fixture for many spotty-faced college students during the mid-nineties to mid-noughties.

During those days, the only way for a group of friends to play a computer game together was if everyone was in one room together with all their computers physically wired to each other.

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