Back in '99 a friend of mine pointed out this site. He said it was a great place to find deals on computer parts. I looked around the forums, and saw a web biased chat room, which didn't appeal to me. However, I did see many thought through articles on computer hardware, which kept me coming back daily.
I spent a little over year just reading articles, and occasionally checking out Hot Deals, looking for stuff I wanted, but did not need. I came across Russ, RossMAN and PAB, the people who could get blood from a rock. I am still in awe of the way they get stuff from companies, and get the company to pay THEM for it. But still, I hid in the shadows.
Then, I found the Distributed Computing forum. There I found people who enjoyed searching for ET among other things, and I signed up so that I may converse with them. That was way back in February of 2001. For many moons I just lurked in the shadows of this forum, just interjecting here and there, trying to get a feel for how AT worked. I met many people in the DC forum, a few I treasure as true friends. They know who they are.
Then a suggestion was made in FI about a Highly Technical Forum. Here were the posts that brought out the people who have computers in their heads, and know more about Fabbing a CPU than Jerboy knew about complaining. Here, my true love came out, the one for math and physics. I meaningful discussion on water cooled homes, and the coefficient of friction come out of the woodwork.
On one of my forays switching between the DC and Hot deals forums, I hit the Off Topic Forum. Here I found people like NFS4, LAUST, and Roger who share my enthusiasm for the Internal Combustion engine. In addition, posts about non-computer related stuff abound, stretching my mind and my horizons. Only in OT would I find that the tithe for Christians should be %10 of their income, and that Adul is really a guy. Well, at least I am pretty sure. The OT forum is defined by words such as Nef, OMG!, st@b, j00, all your base, Shmabbles, and many others. Only in OT.
So here I am. Evadman. Post number 10,001. when I first started, I can admit I nefed my way to 1000 posts. 10,000 seemed totally out of the question. I just stopped caring about my postcount, and still don't care. But it seems like 10,000 posts is a huge milestone here, so I chose to post this. This is probably the only post I will EVER run though a spellchecker, so get used to it.
Thanks AT.
I spent a little over year just reading articles, and occasionally checking out Hot Deals, looking for stuff I wanted, but did not need. I came across Russ, RossMAN and PAB, the people who could get blood from a rock. I am still in awe of the way they get stuff from companies, and get the company to pay THEM for it. But still, I hid in the shadows.
Then, I found the Distributed Computing forum. There I found people who enjoyed searching for ET among other things, and I signed up so that I may converse with them. That was way back in February of 2001. For many moons I just lurked in the shadows of this forum, just interjecting here and there, trying to get a feel for how AT worked. I met many people in the DC forum, a few I treasure as true friends. They know who they are.
Then a suggestion was made in FI about a Highly Technical Forum. Here were the posts that brought out the people who have computers in their heads, and know more about Fabbing a CPU than Jerboy knew about complaining. Here, my true love came out, the one for math and physics. I meaningful discussion on water cooled homes, and the coefficient of friction come out of the woodwork.
On one of my forays switching between the DC and Hot deals forums, I hit the Off Topic Forum. Here I found people like NFS4, LAUST, and Roger who share my enthusiasm for the Internal Combustion engine. In addition, posts about non-computer related stuff abound, stretching my mind and my horizons. Only in OT would I find that the tithe for Christians should be %10 of their income, and that Adul is really a guy. Well, at least I am pretty sure. The OT forum is defined by words such as Nef, OMG!, st@b, j00, all your base, Shmabbles, and many others. Only in OT.
So here I am. Evadman. Post number 10,001. when I first started, I can admit I nefed my way to 1000 posts. 10,000 seemed totally out of the question. I just stopped caring about my postcount, and still don't care. But it seems like 10,000 posts is a huge milestone here, so I chose to post this. This is probably the only post I will EVER run though a spellchecker, so get used to it.
Thanks AT.