My yearly visit to Anandtech

[Teatowel]

Hey everyone

Yup, my once yearly visit to anandtech. Was last here in Sept 2004, and before that in 2002, when I used to post regularly.

It is changed quite a bit. It certainly doesn't seem quite as friendly as it used to be, lots of profanity, and there seems to be loads of members who post a lot but actually have little or nothing to say! Lots of hostility and flaming too.. old wars never die - Nvidia vs ATI, Intel vs AMD Am not a crusty old bloke wanting the good old days back, just reflecting on change, maybe change in the internet as a whole.

Are all the old timers still around? Viper? Texmaster? BFG10k? A guy who is from Iceland beginning with C? Loads of others, just can't remember the names!

Take care everyone.. will be back at some point!

Tt

 

[JME Fidelity]

diaf

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: Teatowel
Are all the old timers still around? Viper? Texmaster? BFG10k? A guy who is from Iceland beginning with C? Loads of others, just can't remember the names!

I'm a newbie, but IIRC Viper and BFG10K are still around, and Texmaster left years ago.

 

[imported_Mike]

Why did you come out of your hole?

 

[TNM93]

Nice that you come back once a year and reflect on the changes.

 

[Shawn]

hello. who are you?

 

[Teatowel]

Well, I stopped posting 3 years ago or thereabouts when I had a state of the art system: Athlon XP 1700, 1gb ram, Radeon 8500. Aside from adding bigger HDs and a DVD-RW, I still run the same machine, but now it's creaking at the seams a little so am doing a little reading

Plus, am on nightshifts, and I have ah heck all else to do!

Tt

 

[Goosemaster]

Posts: 491
Joined: 09/22/2000
Average Posts Per Day: 0.26

:shocked:

*bows*

 

[Teatowel]

Hey - that used to be up at 1 post per day

 

[shimsham]

welcome back. hopefully youll hang around.

 

[Rage187]

you have missed nothing

 

[shilala]

Nice to meet ya, teatowel.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Texmaster was banned a long time ago... something about blatent lying and getting carried away in a flamewar.

cheers to you TeaTowel

 

[Tbirdkid]

Welcome back, and STFU! I figured i didnt want to stick out... hahahahaha

 

[PHiuR]

It has been boring as usual.
enjoy your stay.

 

[ironcrotch]

Hi Teatowel.. our problem is that the more mature members float around and only post regularly so the kids run rampant here. I guess I can be categorized as one of the kiddies stay around for some fun posts...

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
Texmaster was banned a long time ago... something about blatent lying and getting carried away in a flamewar.

cheers to you TeaTowel

Texmaster was banned for taking the email address of someone he was arguing with and signing them up for email porn.

 

[BSEagle1]

Viper's around, but not a lot...I don't see him in OT much, if at all.

And yeah, lots of people like one or two word replies. I blame MMOs for this...people are now seeing the Post Counter as an XP bar and are trying to level up

 

[0roo0roo]

you are a bit twisted if you think it was more civil when texmaster was around.

 

[compuwiz1]

GTSWE! (go troll somewhere else)

Oh, wait, I recognize you. Hehe, long time, my friend...long time. See ya next year!

 

[Czar]

im still here, just more posts

and texmaster had stile, good guy even though he trolled alot

 

[compuwiz1]

Czar, we both joined the same year. How come you got so much posts, compared to me. It's not fair! Mommm, whaaaaaaaa!

 

[Czar]

compuwiz,
all because of p&n, all because of p&n

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: Rage187
you have missed nothing

QFT.

 

[Azraele]

See you in a year?