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demoparty en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From demo + party.

Meanings

1. A party organised by and for the demoscene, typically involving socializing, computer programming, and competitions.
   • They were the organizers of the first Russian demoparty, Enlight '96 in St. Petersburg, but unfortunately there weren't any quality releases. 2005, Tamás Polgár, Freax: the brief history of the demoscene: Volume 1:
   • Extensive documentation on the history of copyparties and demoparties has been lovingly preserved by the demoscene itself. 2008, Tara McPherson, Digital youth, innovation, and the unexpected, page 193:
   • In the mid-1980s, demoparties were also copyparties, where the first so called hot releases of cracked and trained games changed hands. However, illegal software copying later disappeared […] 2021, Mark J. P. Wolf, Encyclopedia of Video Games:

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Coordinates

LAN party · copyparty