What brought me to AnandTech and the TeAm :-)

[mechBgon]

Great to have you on board bountyhunterxl With so many people interested in using their idle CPU power for something worthwhile, it will be interesting to see what evolves in the next 10 years, particularly as computers get more and more powerful. I would still like to see a "distributed rendering" project where, say, the final episode of Star Wars was rendered entirely by the public. Who knows...

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Great to have you on board bountyhunterxl With so many people interested in using their idle CPU power for something worthwhile, it will be interesting to see what evolves in the next 10 years, particularly as computers get more and more powerful. I would still like to see a "distributed rendering" project where, say, the final episode of Star Wars was rendered entirely by the public. Who knows...

Hey, that would be cool. However, I wouldn't be able to participate, since the WUs would be huge (iirc the frames, once rendered, are usually at some resolution like 16000x9000, and of course they'd be uncompressed), and I'm on dialup.

 

[dmcowen674]

Many know the story here. Found the Site checking Hardware reviews as well. The community of those both long time Computer die hards and those yearning to learn was and is still legendary. That translated to the beginning of a small family of DC Pioneers that has grown and molded the shape of the Worldwide DC Internet Community that we know today. Coupled with the fact that they spearheaded the effort to save the life of a fellow Pioneer, me and succeeded I will eternally be grateful.

Dave McOwen

 

[Assimilator1]

bountyhunterxl
Welcome to The team ,btw you'll be hooked in no time.........................wait .......I'm supposed to keep quiet about that!





Smokeball
I love hearing these stories too ,I want here how Hellburner ended up at TA (we'll keep quiet about his brief departure!:Q).

You know what? ,I want to here them all! ,lets hear all you stories about how you ended up here
No matter whether long or short ,new or old

 

[ViRGE]

Well, my story is almost the same as everyone elses.

The year is early 1998, and ViRGE just got his first real computer, a PMMX 200 complete with 32MB of RAM, a ViRGEdx, and the whole works. Being my first real computer, I was amazed by RealVideo, and had been watching a bunch of streams with it. One thing lead to another, and I found the now defunct All Games Network, which had a daily segment called "60 seconds of gaming", which at one point, mentioned AT. So, I came to AT, since I was still a "newbie" to current hardware at the time, and wanted to learn more about hardware.

The months go by, and I read and read, and even register on the forums(this would be considered the birth of ViRGE; I wanted a geeky name, so I picked my video card, which at the time I thought was the greatest). Then on Dec 25, 1998, Anand mentions that a few fellows(Jackal, Becks, and Netopia I believe) talked him in to starting up a team for the relitively new RC5-64 project. This perked my interest, and I started messing with the GUI client. Then I started messing with my new V2 8MB. That lasted for 5 days until I could pull my head out of all my games.

Then I went back to the client, and read that there were MMX optimizations in a newer client, which wasn't availible as a GUI yet. So I started tweeking with the CLI client trying to get the best performance. This lead me back to the forums(at this point, I don't remember if we had a DC forum, or if we asked for it later), which lead to forming the core group of Team AnandTech.

 

[muttley]

My internet magazines go like this Tomshardware, then Sharkyextreme, then Firingsquad, then Anandtech.

Toms cause they have some of the latest hardware and indepth articles AND latest news links.

Sharky cause of hardware and tech and some software. (This site takes the least time usually.)

Firingsquad hardware and software AND news AND in the left side of the articles they always have remarks sometimes nothing to do with the article, sometimes I won't like the article (of interest) but I will go through to see the the comments.

Anandtech, what can I say but more more more tech hardware reviews etc ... I don't write much but read a lot from the forums and hot deals is super. The only thing that I don't like is say you go into OT and they get mad they can go into your profile and rate you a one the lowest and that sucks.
I'd tell others about the community forums but members contribute so much to hotdeals and work for the forums if everyone new about it it wouldn't be a safe respectable haven to enjoy. (I've taught my way out of jobs by sharing enough technical knowledge they didn't need me or want to keep paying me what I was worth)

muttley

 

[Smoke]

The only thing that I don't like is say you go into OT and they get mad they can go into your profile and rate you a one the lowest and that sucks.

Turn that feature off in your profile. What the hell do you care what other people think of you ... I don't.

 

[Assimilator1]

Yeah thats what I do too ,btw don't see quite how that story leads to joining TA?

 

[serialb]

Anandtech.com > Hot Deal forum > GH forum > recruited to the Team by one of the recruiting threads by ass1 (sorry, i just love that abbreviation )

 

[Assimilator1]

I did? ,cool! ,afraid I don't remember! ,when was that?
Its been a long time since I created my own recuiting thread ,in OT was it?

 

[cavdraco]

BGod assimilated my 2 machines over a year ago and Ive beed lurking around ever since reading and learning.
oh and never forget the anual lan party ( also known as the upper midwest drive/fly in that caused me to join the forums)


Cav