The Rise And Fall Of The LAN Party:
At a time when communications technology paradoxically seems to produce a sense of disconnection for many people through algorithmically generated echo chambers and the indexing of personal worth to follower counts or likes, seeing people literally coming together with and around computers is almost aspirational.
It is rare but I get to see this at school still through students gathered around an iPad demonstrating their Scratch projects or showing off some meme they made in Adobe Fresco. It is definitely different though.