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Tickets For The World's Biggest Computer Party
vvizard writes "For Norwegian geeks in particular, easter is preferable spent at the worlds biggest computer-party [The Gathering]. That is, for those lucky enough to get tickets at least. Tickets for the scandinavian people where released through Partyticket last night, and got sold out as fast as the system managed (which due to extreme traffic, isn't very fast). However, there are still tickets left. Foreigners, demosceners and professional gamers have their own pool of tickets, which started selling tonight. So if you fit in one of the previous mentioned categories, and would like to experience the biggest computer-party in the world, now is the time to check out www.gathering.org for information, and www.partyticket.net for ticket-booking."
I've never been to the Gathering but I try to attend Assembly, which is held in Finland every year. It's not quite the same as it used to be during the early nineties when Amiga still ruled the demoscene but the PC's were already coming. I still remember in Assembly '92 when a really cool (can't remember the name) PC demo got a standing ovation from the Amiga crowd.
Because Norwegian grammar dictates it.
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A computer party in Norwegian translates to dataparty, which in two words is an adjective describing noun (data party would of course be nonsensical, because data is not an adjective)
We are in fact seeing quite the direct opposite happening here in Norway, much to the chagrin of Norwegian grammar fetishists (Being the geek I am, I am the English grammar fetishist
One amusing example of this causing trouble is a sign maker's logo reading "Skilt Mann a/s" (a/s = inc.) - 'Skilt' can mean two different things - divorced (adjective), and sign(noun). Therefore, most of the Nordea banks have signs reading "Divorced Man inc." at the bottom
For y'all Norwegianpeople
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Or was it that nobody over the age of 20 in their right mind would be caught dead there?
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
Humour is a delicate concept. What's funny for one, is completely unfunny for others, and vice versa. While we can argue about what's funny or not until the cows come home, the one thing I do know is that I don't like people who think they and they alone can determine what's funny. A lot of people still like this "I for one.." joke and will give it some Funny points, others do not. I've learned to accept that. Will you ?
I have been to this party twice, last time was three years ago. The first time was in 98, and I guess I was amongst the 1% with linux. Second time I was amazed over what kind of people actually went. The majority was below 18 IRC'ers who would sit and chat the entire time. The second largest group was gamers, but they were playing single player most of the time.
During the Demo presentations several people were playing music loudly. There were restricitons on speaker size, but obviously that was not enough.
Frankly, unless you are below 18 and have a need for chatting in the same big room as everyone else, don't bother to go.
I was there in 1993, although it was in another place then (Lillestrom i belive). Back then it was pure geeks let me tell you :)
... And bringing them demos home for some easy credits on the BBS'es when you got home :)
2unlimited "no limit" playing loud 24h a day, as far as calling it LAN, well we had a NULL-modem cabel and played VROOM on 2 Amiga 500.
Back in these days it was not all about playing CS and WC3 (yeah i know im a bit harsh now but...)
Beeing perhaps the only computer geek in town, going to a place like this and meeting 2000 other computer geeks from all around Europe! WOW!