www.AnandTech.com

[Siddhartha]

I read an article somewhere about this high school student who was running a hardware website from his bedroom and how he scooped everybody on publishing a review on the new AMD K6 450-3 cpu.

Was that in 1998 or 1999?

 

[MikeMike]

heard about it on HPI.com forums (they are now like defunct, just the forum, not the site)


MIKE

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

MyTampons

 

[Quasmo]

used the site to get a deal on a hard drive... 25$ for an 80 Gb drive. I was like holy crap I gotta read this site a whole lot. Then I started reading ATOT, Then it all got a little hazy

 

[NoToRiOuS1]

how much time do people usually spend in ATOT...hour...two....five? i spend about an hour a day...sometimes more sometimes less. only lately have i been posting more often...even then...i just now hit 200 posts...how do you people do it?

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: faboloso112
how much time do people usually spend in ATOT...hour...two....five? i spend about an hour a day...sometimes more sometimes less. only lately have i been posting more often...even then...i just now hit 200 posts...how do you people do it?

Many many hours...I don't want to say how many.

 

[essasin]

Originally posted by: faboloso112
how much time do people usually spend in ATOT...hour...two....five? i spend about an hour a day...sometimes more sometimes less. only lately have i been posting more often...even then...i just now hit 200 posts...how do you people do it?

nef

 

[madogvt]

A friend turned me on to the reviews in '99 or 2000. Lurked in HD's for a while for a while after that.

 

[Tiamat]

My older brother had read this site in order to learn how to build a computer (1999). I started reading the reviews shortly after (2000). I didnt know what a forum was, or what its purpose was (i was a real noob) so I didnt discover the forums until late 2003 when I wanted to overclock, new nothing about it, and was pointed to the case&cooling and cpu forums.

I spent my first year solely in CPU and Case&cooling, got bored, ventured into GH, HD, and then my life came to a crashing halt when I accidentally clicked on OT and read a real funny thread -> addicted now.

 

[Toastedlightly]

I heard it through the grapevine...

 

[DivideBYZero]

Searching for hardware reviews back in '99. Lurked for a couple of years then started posting in CPU/OC. Now OT all the time....

 

[EpsiIon]

Don't remember exactly how I found it, but it must have been through another site.

Look at my join date. Probably shortly before registering on the forum.

Addicted? Nope. I'm more addicted now than ever before, but it's more a function of time killing and procrastination than actual addiction. (I don't have a problem, honest...)

First posts were in ATOT, IIRC.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: lnguyen
geocities. that's all i have to say

Ditto


Ausm

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: faboloso112
how did you hear about it...searching for info on rambus
when did you....when rambus came out
were you addicted right away....yes
where was your first post...distributed computing
which forum did you start out posting in...distributed computing (still do daily)

 

[Appledrop]

askchopper !!!

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
think i saw it on tom's back in 1997 or so

back in early 2000 i was hitting the main page a lot. i think more was going on back then than now. notice that they don't review heat sinks anymore.

first post was hot deals.

Confimred! Back then a new processor meant big incerases in frame rates, now it's no big deal. And talk about the 3D cards! Now it doesn't matter taht the voodo 2 sli was better than the voodoo 3! It was neat back then.

Also, dirvers are now better, etc....