Circa '97 me and the guys used to chat about our ideal setup for playing video out in a club to accompany the DJ. We'd have video sequences and realtime animations which reacted to the music, we'd have a bunch of computers and someone "flying" it, it would be amazing.
Considering that the fastest machine available at the time was a Pentium 200mmx and nobody except SGI had thought to put the words "3d" and "hardware" in the same sentence our options were limited to say the least. The concept of VJing was itself unheard of, the closest thing we'd heard of