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Few photos from the forum ages of online gaming live in greater infamy than one of what appears to be a human duct taped to the ceiling of a dimly lit basement, his arms reaching out to lightly graze the keys of a Dell mechanical keyboard.
Many have laid claim to this image. “I was there,” they say. “It was me, I took this photo,” others declared. We reached out to those people most didn’t respond or couldn’t provide proof. But one thread surfaced: A group of small-town gamers who hauled computers to each other’s houses to play, among other games,