What is this myanandtech.aspx thing and why doesn't it work?

[inf1nity]

Often i have seen a link like this in some forum members signature.

http://www.anandtech.com/myanandtech.aspx?member=153540

However when i click on it doesn't work and take me to the home page. Whats the deal with that?

 

[ViRGE]

That's a link for the old Fusetalk forums, which uses IIS + ASPX. vBulletin is PHP based, and the redirects for ASPX links were taken down some time ago. In other words, the user in question hasn't updated their signature in the last 5 years.

 

[inf1nity]

what was that script used for? Was it some kind of database where all members stored their hardware configs?

 

[ViRGE]

what was that script used for? Was it some kind of database where all members stored their hardware configs?

Correct.