The author of upcoming photobook LAN Party wonders if we might learn something from nostalgia for 'a time when computers were so exciting.'
, which reproduces over 400 greasy snapshots of the era, specifically the years between 1997 and 2004. Flip through the book's 176 pages and you'll find pyramids of empty Mountain Dew cans, fat CRT monitors perched precariously on kitchen tables, and a whole inventory of regrettably X-Treme fashion decisions. It is a loving tribute to gamer putrescence.
Merritt collected the majority of the photos in LAN Party through crowdsourcing calls. The LAN party heyday was pre-iPhone and pre-social media, and yet, a ton of grizzled gamers still held on to the glossy photographs of their decades-old Unreal Tournament matches. Those were easy to clear for the book and the images themselves tend to capture the ritual of play—the unscrupulous splendor of fragging your friends on a humid summer evening.
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