I was lurking the hardware forums last august for information on motherboards and I stumbled on OT. Just lurked for a while, thought it was funny and registered in October.
MichaelD
Lifer
- Jan 16, 2001
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Had big plans to upgrade my Dell PIII-550e box. *snicker-snicker* Shortly thereafter, I found out what the terms "proprietary motherboard" and "no AGP slot" meant.
I decided to learn to build my own PC; after all, if the twerps in the Network shop could do it, so could I. I did a AltaVista search for "PC Hardware." It linked me to the Anandtech main page. I clicked on forums, joined, posted my first post in GH. Something like "Please help newbie build first computer." Ahahahah! What a dweeb!!!!!
Noriaki was the first person to reply to my very first thread.
He helped me out a lot those first painful weeks.
I stayed in GH/Overclocking for the first 6 months or so. I thought OT was a waste of time. Then about a year ago, I discovered that OT equalled free psychiatric counseling and was really fun too boot. Here I am. Full blown ATOT addict.
I decided to learn to build my own PC; after all, if the twerps in the Network shop could do it, so could I. I did a AltaVista search for "PC Hardware." It linked me to the Anandtech main page. I clicked on forums, joined, posted my first post in GH. Something like "Please help newbie build first computer." Ahahahah! What a dweeb!!!!!
Noriaki was the first person to reply to my very first thread.
He helped me out a lot those first painful weeks. I stayed in GH/Overclocking for the first 6 months or so. I thought OT was a waste of time. Then about a year ago, I discovered that OT equalled free psychiatric counseling and was really fun too boot. Here I am. Full blown ATOT addict.
I was a regular AnandTech reader since December of 1999 or so. I didn't check out the forums until October of the year after. I registered to ask a few questions on upgrading my system to a Duron and somehow got me into ATOT eventually.
MaxDepth
Diamond Member
- Jun 12, 2001
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Well a couple of years ago, I was at this Internet cafe late one night when I suddenly felt woozy. I looked down at my cup of half-caf, decaf, mocha-chino, double-bleeno, red-eye-wonder-dog, triple expresso and saw some greensih liguid at the bottom.
"Egads, I've been poisoned," I said to myself as I fell face first onto the keyboard.
When I woke up, I found myself chained to this desk, hancuffed to a computer terminal with a Japanese-Swahili keyboard that does not have the letter 'x'. I was logged in to ATOT and I find that I cannot log out. (In the reflection of the monitor, I also saw that face had been horribly disfigured in a grid pattern from the headlong plunge into the keyboard.)
Every time I try to start a new topic thread with the words, "help", " for the love of God", and "I've been kidnapped," the mods always lock the thread and it (the thread) disappears in a matter of seconds following the lock.
I miss my mommy and I want to go home.
"Egads, I've been poisoned," I said to myself as I fell face first onto the keyboard.
When I woke up, I found myself chained to this desk, hancuffed to a computer terminal with a Japanese-Swahili keyboard that does not have the letter 'x'. I was logged in to ATOT and I find that I cannot log out. (In the reflection of the monitor, I also saw that face had been horribly disfigured in a grid pattern from the headlong plunge into the keyboard.)
Every time I try to start a new topic thread with the words, "help", " for the love of God", and "I've been kidnapped," the mods always lock the thread and it (the thread) disappears in a matter of seconds following the lock.
I miss my mommy and I want to go home.
Supermercado
Diamond Member
- Jan 18, 2002
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I first came to the site itself amost two years ago when I was looking for information on hardware for the machine I was getting ready to build for school in the fall. Got the link from a friend.
Came to the forums only this year, about January or so. A friend that lived down the hall from me this year got all kinds of good stuff from the Hot Deals forum and he told me about the forums here. I just happened to check out Off Topic one day.
Came to the forums only this year, about January or so. A friend that lived down the hall from me this year got all kinds of good stuff from the Hot Deals forum and he told me about the forums here. I just happened to check out Off Topic one day.
ThePresence
Elite Member
- Nov 19, 2001
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Found out because of the hot deals forum....ahhh the deals of a few years ago...
of course i have only been posting recently
of course i have only been posting recently
I used to post at IGN a lot and people had some links to Anandtech. So I randomly happened to click on the "Community" button and saw some cool posts. Then I registered for the forums, and now I almost have 1000 posts.
A link on the comp.sys.ibm newsgroup posted in April of 1997.
Anand and his Cyrix PR150+, AOL, and Geocities! Those were the days!
Have a look at this!
Real funny stuff over at archive.org.
Tom blocked his site, however the orginal (sysdoc.pair.com) site is archived! I guess only the oldtimers will remember that.
Cheers!
Anand and his Cyrix PR150+, AOL, and Geocities! Those were the days!
Have a look at this!
Real funny stuff over at archive.org.
Tom blocked his site, however the orginal (sysdoc.pair.com) site is archived! I guess only the oldtimers will remember that.
Cheers!
started with FS/FT as an alternative to egay, then I started going to HD, then a lil in tech support, then after hearing about ATOT I decided to come and see what the big deal was...here I am.
Someone I worked with a few years ago gave me the link to the front page when I was just starting to learn about computer hardware. Eventually, I just wandered into the forums and never left.
bugsysiegel
Golden Member
- Jan 11, 2001
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A friend turned me onto Anand's site for 'puter info. I checked out the forums, and I was interested. It got really interesting about the time folks were o/c-ing their K6's, and it got seriously entertaining when the Cele 300A routinely worked @ 450 MHz, if you knew what you were doing. Folks here did.
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