How did you find AnandTech?

[AdamK47]

I didn't find AnandTech, AnandTech found me.

 

[dennilfloss]

If I remember correctly, there was another tech site known as AGN that folded and many of those members gravitated here...

Like Paulson.

I was a member at AGN too but after I had joined AT. AnandTech was my first. Lost my Internet virginity here.

 

[dennilfloss]

I mostly came for hardware reviews (not the forum).

Ditto. It took me months before I even noticed the forums (probably because I was reading the site in the geology computer lab, so my time online was limited each session). The Aopen AX6BC review had really impressed me so I bought this instead of an ASUS P2B for my first build.

 

[UberNeuman]

Like Paulson.

I was a member at AGN too but after I had joined AT. AnandTech was my first. Lost my Internet virginity here.

lol, Paulson... and Nick Caputo...

A blast from an age old past...

\grand times they were....

 

[Anubis]

over a decade ago, mentioned on Tech TV (The Screen Savers) back when it was actually good. They were talking about Overclocking the original AMD Thunderbird

 

[Fenixgoon]

my brothers were on AT.

 

[dennilfloss]

lol, Paulson... and Nick Caputo...

\grand times they were....

Caputo was before my time, not by much but I still missed that 'commotion'. I still have the MP3 when Paulson sang country music.

 

[bradley]

The ABIT IT5H HX Socket-7 motherboard brought me here in Summer of 1997.

 

[UberNeuman]

Caputo was before my time, not by much but I still missed that 'commotion'. I still have the MP3 when Paulson sang country music.

For whatever it's worth, I regret ragging on Paulson as much as I did....

 

[iamwiz82]

Came here in the fallout of of AGN and Sysopt

 

[sandorski]

From another techsite, 3DNow.net. Anandtech was one of the links on the Links page.

 

[NuclearNed]

I came here around 1999/2000 for the Hot Deals forum. Lurked for 1+ years, finally joined in 2001.

 

[dennilfloss]

\grand times they were....

UN, aren't you the one who originally made this?

 

[dennilfloss]

For whatever it's worth, I regret ragging on Paulson as much as I did....

Paulson grew up after a while... but he was damn annoying when he was harping about his Gateway 1GHz Tbird computer.

Damn, someone mentioned SysOpt. I was there too and a few more places. I'm quite the computer forums slut it seems.

 

[stealthycow]

Videocard reviews a looong time ago. I think it was when I was upgrading from like a geforce 5600 or something in a crappy dell prebuilt to a foxconn 7900gs. That foxconn was a beast. I dunno if it was an anadtech thing, some other forum, or just an internet-wide phenomenon, but their 7900gs was basically a meme.

Came to the forums for FS/FT and to ask OC questions for my new processor I bought on FS/FT.

 

[RossMAN]

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Oh how I miss the golden days of Hot Deals

I miss Jokersmoker, I hope he's doing well. He is a Hot Deals legend, just like Selma is on SD

I found AT through Hot Deals when it was actually Hot ... those were the days.

Who remembers the Wounded Monitor Children debacle?

 

[bigrash]

From a friend who was helping me troubleshoot my first computer build.

 

[zerocool84]

I'm pretty sure I heard about it from TechTV.

 

[Rifter]

recomended by friends on hardwarecentral forums, many many years ago, man i've been here forever.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

I came here for the K6-3 review

here's the article:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/207

 

[StrangerGuy]

I'm pretty sure I came here for the original Pentium 4 review and found out how much it sucked.

 

[Secoo140]

Game cpu chart was great

 

[Meghan54]

I miss Jokersmoker, I hope he's doing well. He is a Hot Deals legend, just like Selma is on SD

I found AT through Hot Deals when it was actually Hot ... those were the days.

Who remembers the Wounded Monitor Children debacle?

Found this place during the WMC resolution, when the Hot Deal section was made to "isolate" the WMC's from OT, or that's what was being told back then anyway.

And remember Value America? Spent more than my share with that now defunct company. And all the freebies that the companies back then gave away---still have a few laying around today. Mostly junk but the crap was free.

Forget the actual hardware sites before AT. Sharky Extreme was one, there was another but forget its name now, too long ago.

 

[Blain]

How did you find AnandTech?

I found it back in 1998/99 searching for reviews on 10GB HDs and the Intel Katmai processors.

 

[sportage]

Good question/thread.
Years and years ago while building a pc.
Searching out info and help.

Now its just P&N and off topic.

From pc builder to blow hard. Go figure...