alt Hacker NewsCool! I went to a LAN party in a retired nuclear bunker in 2000. I remember someone had one of the first TFT screens. It was muddy, had zero visibility unless you were directly head on, and what felt like around 3fps. They were trying to play Counter-Strike. (Everyone else had a CRT and laughed at it.)
When I moved to Tempe in 1999, there was an Internet Café downtown. It was operating in an old Bank of America building, with its vault room more or less intact. This was not the only bank building to be converted into a café.
The vault was set up as a quite impressive gamer-cave. There were purple LED rope lights lining the walls, and of course, beefy Wintel PCs to run all the games you could ever hope for in those heady days. It was supposedly rather difficult to run wiring into the vault; of course it wasn't designed for all of that, and the walls were not exactly conducive to drilling or sawing into it.
But they made it work for a few years. Those days of Internet Cafés were kind of amazing. Nowadays, we're lucky if the Free Starbucks WiFi is working properly.