How did you find your way to ATOT?

[Kaido]

A nerdy friend recommended it to me as a place to find good computer help. For some reason, this is the only forum I've really stuck with over the years.

It just feels like home now. I wake up, make my breakfast, and sit down to read Engadget and browse the forums here.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Originally posted by: MAKENITO
Haha Google searched an article - came across this - found out it was a forum, decided to bless it:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

Stupid Question Number *lost count* - ok, I know this is AnandTech right? But where does ATOT come from? Im confuzzled

Lurk Moar.

 

[polarbear6]

Had a little trouble with my E8400 back then ... First I joined Toms Hardware and then Anandtech.

 

[Engineer]

This is my first trip to ATOT. I like it and think I'll stay.

Hell, I don't remember....I'm too old and it was too long ago!

 

[BrownShoes]

Read an Anand article in a magazine.

 

[Kreon]

Was told to go here to get help building a computer way back when.
Decided it was an interesting place to waste time.

Since then, I'm pretty sure I've just posted in OT, HT and once in a while in Security.

 

[Kaido]

Okay, so which one of you is this?

http://www.comixed.com/2009/08...nkoma-good-at-his-job/

 

[Jumpem]

In the late nineties AT had banner ads on the local place I bought computers from: http://www.jncs.com/.

 

[DrPizza]

physics teacher before me pointed me at the hot deals section here. And, back then, hot deals were HOT deals - i.e. after the rebates came back, sometimes you made a profit. Today, it seems like a price drop of $1 on a $250 video card is considered a "hot deal". I lurked for most of a year, then signed up either to comment or point out a hot deal I found. I think I went 3 years before discovering the allure of OT.

 

[Arcadio]

I found ATOT way back in 2002 or something. I didn't join because it didn't allow web-based e-mail accounts. Then in 2007 I finally decided that it was time to join a good tech forum, so I got myself a valid e-mail address from my ISP and joined.

 

[jamesbond007]

I am not sure if it was linked from Tom's Hardware (I use to read that before I came here) or if it was when Leo Laporte interviewed Anand on the Screensavers.

God, I freaking miss those days!!! I'd give damn near anything to go back 10 years...technology was so exciting and major breakthroughs took place everywhere. The dot-com boom, websites galore, and when 1024x786 was a 'huge' screen resolution. The crawl to 1GHz was underway and now we just get more and more cores of the same CPU speed added to each generation of CPU.

:: yawn ::

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: Kaido
Okay, so which one of you is this?

http://www.comixed.com/2009/08...nkoma-good-at-his-job/

BAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAA!!

Win.

 

[IronWing]

I was looking for info on my video card overheating.

 

[Crono]

I think it was for some info on building my first custom-built computer. I think a Google search led me to the forums.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Came here after years of AT Hot Deals lurking.

 

[Gothgar]

I was building a computer around 2002 joined , then found anandtech through a link on there, lurked for a couple years before I registered

 

[Demo24]

I got sucked in and haven't been allowed the leave since.

 

[compman25]

Came here thru toms hardware and the overclockers list and the hardware group, back then Anand was a member of the Hardware Group. Lurked for a long time here before joining.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I was watching Mosh through her bedroom window, as I do every night, and I saw her on the computer so I picked up my binoculars to see what she was looking at, checked it out for myself and decided to stay!

 

[tyler811]

You all can thank BMACD for bringing my wit and infinite wisdom here.

 

[nageov3t]

slashdot

 

[Buttzilla]

Was introduced to FS/FT forums back in 99 my a good friend but don't remember how I came to atot.

 

[boomerang]

I've actually been here since '97 or early '98 but under a different username then. (Asked to have a change and was ignored)

I saw an article in the newspaper about this 14 year old kid from N.C. that started up a computer hardware review site hosted by geocities. Thought I'd check it out.

 

[Rockinacoustic]

I was a lurker for a year or two before I realized that the reason I couldn't register was because I was using a hotmail account or something.

 

[olds]

It was one of the links in the forum listings.