Event: TMC-LAN 0 - LAN Party Event Date: 09/18/2004 Written By: Warhawk Date Written: 1/27/2026

In September 2004, Demise was working for a LAN center in Hayward called Reboot. Demise approached me with an opportunity for TMC to co-host a LAN event with Reboot. It turns out the guy that owned the Reboot center (his name was Mel), had access to another space in Hayward. This new space turned out to be very strange, it was a duplex house with Mel living on one side and his landlords living on the other. Attached to the back of the duplex was some sort of industrial workshop space; I was told it used to be a print shop. The whole place felt like a large garage or warehouse. There was also an upstairs loft area with a few strangely shaped rooms. 

The space was quite large and Mel wanted to use the space for something. Demise was able to convince him to start having LAN parties there as a way to get extra income. Mel did not have the expertise or equipment to do such a thing, and thats where TMC came in. With Demise’s help TMC was able to make a deal with Mel to co-host a LAN event at the location. 

Gatekeeper and Kraz got to work mapping out the power and figuring out network details. It turned out the place had quite a lot of power coming into it, presumably to run the printing machinery that was there before. We also came to find out that the layout of the circuits was pretty crazy and definitely not to code. 

Kaffine invested about 200 dollars into networking cables and created some really nice cat 5 snakes with junction boxes on the end. Before we began promoting a public event we wanted to have a smaller trial event with primarily TMC members and other close friends. This first event, which we called “TMC LAN 0” was held on September 18th, 2004 and had about 25 in attendance.