Is it true that the world's longest LAN party on record was held in Cyberjaya?
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.
Sometimes, educational institutions would get in on the act and host LAN parties of their own during special events, one of which reached legendary proportions.First, a foray into terminology. LAN is an acronym for Local Area Network, which is a bunch of computers hooked up to a server, switch or router. A LAN party is when such a network is set up purely for the users to indulge in some digital fun playing multiplayer computer games together.
The record attempt was held during the Cyber Fusion 2009 game convention and was an international affair seeing gamers coming from Malaysia, China, Brunei, Korea and even Yemen.
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