Who has been a member here the longest?

[Corn]

Blade, holding your breath that long??!?!?!?!


Russ, I swear I saw that same post but it was from EvilChris's or Orkinman's mommy.

 

[Russ]

Several Mommy's have popped up since then, but that's the original.

Russ, NCNE

 

[Ornery]

How this Forum came about/ Or how the Warez was won
by Red Dawn May/05/2000

• Yea oh ye children of Anand. gather thee around while I tell a tale of how your beloved Forum, the one that we all know as Offtopics, came to be.
  
  Before there was the lost Tribe of the treacherous Coupon Coders,who are known in the house of Anand as the Ingrates, and their fathers before them who are still known as the Wounded Monitor Children, Anand in all whose youthful wisdom created a Hardware Universe known as Anandtech and it was good. Looking around Anand saw that he had beget many followers who came to be like children to him. So Anand in all his youthful wisdom created a great house for his children so they may discuss great things such as Nvidia vs. 3Dfx and Intel vs. AMD, and named it the General Hardware Forum and it was good. So it was for Eons and Eons, all of Anand's happy children played and frolicked in Anand?s Great Universe and the great house Anand built for his children and Anand was pleased and he did then rest.
  
  Alas, not all was right in the house of Anand. Unbeknownst to Anand there was a great disturbance brewing. About this time, the Great Arch Liberal Harvey arrived at the Great House of Anand. Though he had been one of the Elders there, he had been away fighting the Great Teuton, Thomas of Pabst. Upon his arrival, The Great Arch Liberal Harvey noticed one who was no child of Anand. Nay, it was the child of Christ who was known as Fish, come to the Great House of Anand to spread the gospel of his savior. The Great Arch Liberal Harvey also noticed that there were one or 2 others like the one they called Fish, among them a mountain of a mere mortal who was known as Netopia. At once the Great Arch Liberal Harvey went to slay this one known as Netopia but found that this mountain of a mere mortal possessed strength that matched that of the Great Arch Liberal himself. Having just battled Thomas of Pabst to a stalemate while inflicting deep wounds upon the Teutonic Twit?s heavenly Ego, the Great Arch Liberal Harvey was full of confidence and truly believed that no mere mortal would be able to suffer his mighty blows. He soon found he was mistaken.
  
  The battle between the mountainous mere mortal of a man Netopia and the Arch Liberal Harvey raged for 40 days and 40 nights, with many children of Anand allying themselves with either the Great Arch Liberal or with the mountainous mere mortal of a man, Netopia, who by now had won many supporters with his show of courage and strength. Never before had it been believed that a mere mortal would be able to stand up to the Great Arch Liberal Harvey. Thunderous upon thunderous blows were landed by both combatants yet there still seem to be no victor in sight. It seemed that the Great house of Anand was doomed.
  
  Meanwhile Anand in all his great youthful wisdom had been out shopping for a new BMW Roadster and had not been aware of the ferocious battle raging in the great house he built for his children. All of a sudden, Anand heard a great roar. When he looked to seek the cause of this great roar he saw his great house, which in all his wisdom he built for his children, had become a horrific battleground. He also saw the one named Fish preaching the word of his Lord, which seemed to fuel this horrific battle. Alas Anand was saddened. His children were in mortal combat with each other and the Great Arch Liberal who had won favor with Anand seemed powerless to do anything about it. Anand, with wisdom beyond his youthful years, knew that unless he acted fast all would be lost in the Great House called General Hardware Forum. Anand pondered and pondered until he realized that he could build another great house so his warring children could be separated from each other.
  
  With a voice that can only be described as that of Ron Howard?s, Anand commanded his children to stop fighting each other at once. Stunned, the children of Anand dropped their verbal swords and cowered. Anand then looked upon those of his children who cared not for their fellow Anandthech brethren and commanded that they leave the Great House called the General Hardware Forum. Of course being the loving and wise Hardware Master that his is, Anand told those whom he had banished from the Great House called the General Hardware Forum to follow the Great Arch Liberal Harvey to a new promised land, to the Great House Called Non Hardware General Forum, which we know today as Offtopic. Of course along with the Great Arch Liberal Harvey, the mountainous mere mortal of a man Netopia and the one known as fish were ordered to abandon the Great house called General forum as well and were forced into exile at the Great House called Non General Hardware Forum. Others who also were banished were NWM, now known as Jenni the Manshe, the evil Troll H8tank, Russell of Compucheap, though it is rumored he just went there looking for chicks, and yours truly, Red Dawn. Others did follow. The one called Hippy, Rio of Rebel, the aptly named Ornery and though nobody remembers him yet he claims he was there, etech the Anal, probably known as something else at the time.
  
  This oh ye children of Anand?s second great house, now known as the Offtopic, is how this Forum in which we break bread and balls amongst other things, came about.

 

[blade]

Might be holding it for a long time eh Corn. But it's the "thought" that counts.

I also remember puto's mom, dad, brother etc.. posting on his behalf with similar remarks as Conan's Mom. har har

Wasn't there another bbs before ubb? I remember it being different but maybe it was just an earlier version or something. Or maybe I'm wrong,haha.

 

[AndrewR]

Gee, thanks, Moonbeam, for misconstruing my post.

 

[GT1999]

LOL Russ, I remember that post.

 

[UWDawg]

What does, "Wounded Monitor Child" mean?

 

[Outfits]

Wow I'd forgotten so much of this stuff... been a menber here for a long time. I spent most of my time in General forum. Tend to keep my posts to a minimum but spend time here every day.I do remenber the old forums
crashing a lot and seems like during one three month period having to re-register twice. Anyway this is the oldest registration I could dig up:--- anand@anandtech.com wrote:
> To: outfits@yahoo.com
> From: anand@anandtech.com
> Subject: AnandTech Discussion Board Registration -
> Your Password
> Date: Sun, 7 Jun 98 18:27:01 +0000
>
> Hello!
>
> Thank you for registering on AnandTech Discussion
> Board. Your registration is provided below,
> including your new password. You will need this
> information in order to post any messages in our
> forums.
>
> Your UserName: outfits
> YourPassword: XXXXXX
> Your Email Address of record is: outfits@yahoo.com
>
> Again, thank you for registering.
>

Anandtech.com was my home page for a long time and I rarely missed a day
on that page. His site is the best I've found, and what other site would make the time to reply to your e-mail:

Ron,

Read my TNT2 review for a full benchmark comparison, including V2 SLI numbers

http://www.anandtech.com/html/review_display.cfm?document=940

Take care,
Anand
----- Original Message -----
From: Ron
To: anand@anandtech.com
Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 9:27 AM
Subject: TNT 2 Review


Just read your Leadtek TNT2 review, wish you would post V2 SLI numbers as a reference. I know old sh*t
but I KNOW how mine look. Numbers are great
when you have a known reference but without
one they are just numbers to me. Thanks for all your good work keep it up.
Ron

 

[Budman]

I was also a Beta tester.

I joined on October 9th, 1999 4:36 AM.

 

[Midnight Rambler]

I still show a 19" Hitachia order in process myself.

But WildDreamer is right, the 13.6GB Maxtor for $99 at Staples predates even the WMC fiasco. Who knows how many in-store fights they had over those.

 

[Fiddy]

I think I showed up sometime around the WMC. Definitely was there for the Mcglen Micro McMonitor fiasco. And, yes Undie, I DO remember V.A.

 

[ultravox]

Oh yeah..who remembers Teddy Ruxpin....Bastard Windoze Programmer from Canada

 

[andrey]

anyone remembers old UBB which used to crash every other month? :Q