# The Great Monitor Lug

> The Great Monitor Lug is a Retsy Series 1 NFT on Solana, card 0930 of 1,280 in the 00s Hangouts set, made in six finishes. A basement LAN party where teens hauled heavy CRT monitors and towers over to play networked games all weekend.

URL: https://retsy.fun/collection/the-great-monitor-lug/

- Card number: 0930 of 1,280
- Set: 00s Hangouts (00-HNG)
- Year: 2004
- Type: Weekend basement LAN party
- Tagline: Bring your tower. Bring your cables.
- Found at: The Nguyens' basement
- Cost back then: Your own power strip
- Stats: Nostalgia 9/10, Hype 7/10, Weirdness 6/10, Trade value 6/10
- Finishes: Base (100 copies), Holo (50 copies), Laser (25 copies), Gold (10 copies), Super Laser (1 copy), Misprint (1 copy)
- Images: https://retsy.fun/nft/0930-base.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0930-holo.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0930-laser.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0930-gold.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0930-super.webp, https://retsy.fun/nft/0930-misprint.webp

## The story

Getting there was the hardest part: a forty-pound CRT monitor in your arms, a tower in a laundry basket, and a tangle of cables in a backpack. Six desks lined the Nguyens' basement, connected by a nest of blue network cables to one blinking switch. The weekend ran on pizza, soda and hollering across the room, and nobody slept until Sunday.

## Fun fact

Someone always tripped a breaker by Saturday night, and the whole basement went dark mid-match with a groan.

Retsy Series 1 is an NFT collection on Solana. Every card is minted to the buyer's wallet the moment its pack is ripped at https://retsy.fun/packs/.