zappenduster: i compared it to the the danish lan party called The Party with the demo contests and the likes not that Dream Hack is a danish event, but zappenduster have you ever heard about "The Party" ?
ah my failure sorry iam still tired from work had to ditch stuff into a aceton acid bath and may have breathed too much in =) the party hmm i dont think i did hear of it but iam not much into the scene stuff my knowledge begins at with assembly goes to gathering and ends at the german chaos computer club i just love cool pictures and when there are 4-5000 computers in one tears drop from my eyes :smt022
hmmm GCCC are scary aka CCC are scary but for me the scene is cooler when we are not talking CCC but the scene formed originally over the cracker groups who made the first graphic demos (and bragged about there skills and put trainers in the demos too) so that is the exiting thing about lan parties when todays people are more hardcore programmers and trackers and that is why i feel it is exiting. since the history is more criminal than the demos are today.