How did you come to the AT forums?

[janas19]

I basically started through Tapatalk. That was how I found AnandTech, by browsing a list of "Tech" forums on an app.

Later on I would come back to use the CPU bench page. But otherwise, never would've even known about AT.

 

[Saint Nick]

I think I joined originally for FS/FT forum, but ended up posting a bunch in Off Topic for some reason.

 

[MotF Bane]

Introduced to this, and several other tech forums, by a real life friend.

 

[janas19]

Introduced to this, and several other tech forums, by a real life friend.

You have one of those?

You da man.

 

[MrBailey]

Just to lurk...and the tech portion

 

[manimal]

Old days of hot deals when it was THE hot deals of the interwebs.

 

[shortylickens]

Went looking for advice on motherboards, this is one of the many places I found. Seemed to have the best info (at the time) so I kept coming back. Read the forums a lot to get advice.
One time I saw a dude ask a question about SPDIF and I knew I could answer it, so I joined up and posted. He was grateful.
I used to only make posts when it was genuinely helpful, averaging one a week.
Had I not found Off Topic I would have been Elite years ago and never once banned.

 

[trmiv]

Looking for info on CPUs, motherboards and other tech stuff.....like 14-15 years ago. First found the Anandtech Geocities site, and have been through all the various iterations of the site and forums. Ugh, I'm getting old!

 

[cronos]

Hot Deals from way back (didn't even register until about a year after I visited regularly).

 

[HardcoreRobot]

gen hardware & hot deals, now just hanging around OT being disgusted

 

[Sixguns]

IT guy at work was always talking about OT, checked it out and have been lurking in the OT and others for about a year.

 

[mrblotto]

A fellow clanmember had mentioned it a few times. Checked it out - liked what I saw

 

[brainhulk]

I was looking for tips on my computer setup and overclocking . I happened on this site on a suggestion from someone at toms hardware.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I was looking for component information for my first build when I was in junior high. I started by poring over the main site for information and eventually clicked the forums link for the hell of it.

 

[janas19]

I missed this "Hot Deals" phase... Or are you guys referring to the HD sub-forum?

I've seen some nice things there - occasionally.

 

[JJ650]

I don't recall, but I am pretty sure it was in search of some hardware information.

 

[Deeko]

When I was a wee 14-15 year old, I posted on the Bleem! message board (I was the only teen in America that didn't actually own a PSX), mostly about various tech topics. When Bleem! got sued into oblivion by Sony, their board shut down, and I had to find a new tech board. How exactly I chose Anandtech, I don't know...but I did.

 

[nageov3t]

a slashdot link to an anandtech article.

at the time, I was working the graveyard shift in a data center and I was desperate for time-wasters that weren't outright flash games.

 

[janas19]

When I was a wee 14-15 year old, I posted on the Bleem! message board (I was the only teen in America that didn't actually own a PSX), mostly about various tech topics. When Bleem! got sued into oblivion by Sony, their board shut down, and I had to find a new tech board. How exactly I chose Anandtech, I don't know...but I did.

Destiny, Deeko. It was destiny.

 

[AstroManLuca]

I think I joined originally for FS/FT forum, but ended up posting a bunch in Off Topic for some reason.

this

 

[Red Storm]

I found AT in my early teen years. I had a dying PC and needed to learn how it all functioned so I would know what to upgrade. I already knew how thanks to my dad, but he wasn't up to date on the latest and greatest.

Many years later, here I am.

 

[alkemyst]

pedobear sent me an invite link in 1999.

 

[Linflas]

Researching cpu coolers for a long forgotten system in early 2001.

 

[SandEagle]

came in looking for computer advice, ended up trolling OT. for 5 years. found P&N last year.

 

[trmiv]

When I was a wee 14-15 year old, I posted on the Bleem! message board (I was the only teen in America that didn't actually own a PSX), mostly about various tech topics. When Bleem! got sued into oblivion by Sony, their board shut down, and I had to find a new tech board. How exactly I chose Anandtech, I don't know...but I did.

Bleem!! I had Bleemcast for my Dreamcast just to play Gran Turismo 2.