How did you first find AT?

[Jassi]

I'll start. About 4 years ago, I searched for advice on networking. To the best of my knowledge, that was the first time I saw AT. A couple of years later, I found the forums while surfing and the hot deals section and stuck around. Lurked until sept. of last year and finally signed up.

Hows about you?

 

[Kalvin00]

I think I saw anandtech.com in a computer shopper magazine...went to the website, went to the forum...and so began an addiction.

 

[Blayze]

One of my friends told me about it.

 

[imported_Chemist]

Through Tom's Hardware, I think.

 

[jst0ney]

when I was researching a computer build in 98 or 99

 

[sonambulo]

some prick named FM2n on #neochat frequented another channel on undernet i use. one time he suggested i follow him, there i met sully and sampson. i figured this place would be like them. so so so wrong.

 

[Slappy00]

one of the big 3 websites i visited...

Toms
This
Sharky Extreme

 

[Rage187]

followed a link from 3Dforums.com, they closed back in late 2000 so I moved here.

 

[MartyMcFly3]

FallenHero told me about it.

 

[ts3433]

I was preparing to build my first computer (which I didn't do till September), and I was researching as early as April. Being your typical naive 13-year-old, I had been reading crap like Maximum PC for information, thinking that in order to game with any sort of acceptable frame rates (which I haven't done yet, actually) there was no way around spending $400 (at the time) for a 9800XT. (Of course, I failed to read--in mice type--that they conducted all their tests at 16x12.)

Anyway, I was researching online when I finally stumbled upon AnandTech. I checked periodically for new developments, because it looked like a good site for information on this kind of stuff. I read various things on here, and I actually got right information on this stuff, for once. I finally signed up for the forums in June, and I've been learning through here ever since.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Link from another forum.

 

[saxophonoia]

Originally posted by: Blayze
One of my friends told me about it.

same here...kyparrish

 

[RossMAN]

DVDTalk.com forums - my first forum addiction

 

[Evadman]

Friend

 

[PowerMac4Ever]

Thresh's firingsquad had an article about hot deals. Ended up joining Fatwallet first, then joined Anandtech a month later. As time went on I found myself choosing AT Hot Deals over FW Hot Deals more and more. Then I migrated to ATOT

Edit: this article

 

[Schadenfroh]

ATHD

 

[LordMorpheus]

came here for computer building advice a long time ago.

 

[Malak]

Random link or google search a long time ago. Was/still is the best tech site I've been to.

 

[deftron]

fatwallet, i think

 

[olds]

I was fighting a POS Abit mobo and my brother told me about it.

 

[desteffy]

friends were telling me about the hot deals forum. I was a lurker there for a few years, then found a really good deal and posted it, then with my account i drifted here.

I think the deal was a 15" powerbook for 1399 new. I got one of them and it is great. One of my friends got a similar one for about 2700 less than 6 months before.

 

[b0mbrman]

I asked a friend a computer question and he sent me to hot deals...I believe I joined in order to ask a question regarding a free keychain

 

[Alex]

my dad showed me an article in a magazine he was reading about this 18 year old geek kid that had a bmw and his own website