Inside the World's Largest LAN Party

MrSeb writes "Last weekend, over 12,000 LAN party goers turned up at DreamHack Winter 2011 in Jonkoping, Sweden with a PC under the arm, on their back, or packed carefully in the trunk of their car. Every single attendee is squeezed into just three massive halls — the largest holding 5,000 computers — or four days, only taking brief breaks to sleep or check out one of the many stages (including some of the largest e-sport tournaments of the year). Being the largest LAN party in the world, DreamHack's infrastructure is suitably monumental: it takes days to lay the thousands of cables, and at the heart of the network is tower of Cisco routers that interface with a 120Gbps internet connection provided by Telia."

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Again scandinavia.

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Curious stuff, breakthroughs, firsts, innovation much more in percentage compared to their size and resources.

america on the other hand is still busy with giving 72% of every economic value to 1% of its society, whereas 85% gets to eat dirt with getting only 15%. glorious system. makes one want to 'innovate'.

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html