Great thread for reminiscing! It sounds like every time I get together with my old high school and university friends .
All you guys who remembered mika.dynip.com have a great memory. That is the only question from Jay which I couldn't remember until Polo mentioned it !
The ViRGE fiasco is probably one of the most fun and funniest things I've ever witnessed. ViRGE had no idea what was going on .
The first machine I was cracking with was a P2-266 back in Oct 1998. I hadn't joined Team AnandTech until JonB convinced me in April 1999. That's also when the pproxy went into production.
Here's some of the history of the pproxy/statsbox. The first box was a P100. It only took a few weeks of JonB's high output to make the stats runs slow to a crawl on that machine! It was shortly thereafter upgraded to a dual Celeron 450. At the beginning, it was tied to my cable modem at home. A couple months after starting to run the pproxy, I moved to another city. The pproxy stayed in the old city until our there house sold. Does anyone remember the posts "The pproxy is down, but I won't be able to reboot it until I drive back this weekend". That was some flakey hardware! The pproxy lived in a friends apartment for a couple weeks before moving to my office where it stayed for quite some time.
Here's a link I've pulled up from the past:
http://mika.dhs.org/rc5/test/byemail.html
Here's a couple semi-obscure questions:
Who coined the phrase "CrackRack"?
Who is the only Team AnandTech member I've met face to face ?
What was the city I originally lived in?
greetz: BGod, BoberFett, BPhantom, BurntKooshie, Captian_Rob, dmcowen, Jay, JonB, Ken_g6, LD, narzy, netopia, mechBgon, Osmo, PeterN, Polo, Possessed Freak, RaySun2Be, Slahr Dzhe, ViRGE, wolfie, and everyone else I've missed!
Mika