I loooove being an Anonymous Gerbil an TR is the only site that lets me do this!!!
Thanks TR

Thank you TR!

The articles around here are by far the most extensive and best-written. They are interesting to everybody from the graph-gapers to the technical wizards, with a lovely bit of humor thrown in.

The attitude of the guests is second to none, also.

Originally Posted by FrgMstr
sativa: The 1, 2, 3 year looks back have been discussed by Steve and myself now for a couple of months. We decided it would be a fun thing to do once a week or so...or on a slow news day.

As for inspiration, while I wish I could credit TR, quite frankly I did not know their BD till I stopped by here. Long after the post was put up.

If you would care to look over more of our archives you can check this link.

http://www.hardocp.com/newsarchives.html

Originally Posted by Amonynous Gebril
Hyvää syntymäpäivää T-R!

I got out of Finnish Army on 31.12.1999 and started an even more boring job for 8 months. Spent my days surfing the web for hardware sites (particularily Ars and T-R). When the paycheck arrived I remember thinking: But I\'ve done nothing but surfing last month...

Kyle, the reason I brought it up was because you went to the trouble of doing a "3 years ago today, 2 years ago today, 1 year ago today" post in your news the same day tech report announced its "3 years ago today" anniversary. obviously there was inspiration and opportunity to credit.

On a lighter note, your post about "warez d00dz" being at dictionary.com is hilarious. The definition for "b1ff" is pretty funny too.

Originally Posted by FrgMstr
Sativa, I think if you will go back and check you will see the [H] is void of even wishing ourselves happy birthday over the last few years. Off hand, I don\'t even know when it is and I really don\'t care. :)

But! If you just want to feel as though the Johnson you are holding in your hand is as big as you really think it is, YOU ARE RIGHT. We are bastards for not posting the NEWS of TR\'s 3rd year...and I feel flacid for missing it.

Please gripe about something with merit next time, thanks.

My hats are off to the good gentlemen here at the Tech-Report. I was here on Day 1, and it supplanted the [H] (which I still visit daily) by the end of Week 2. Huzzah to the best tech-oriented site on the web!

[q]Forge missed the shift key once, and somebody though "forge" was an imposter.[/q]

I remember that. It was quite humorous.

Originally Posted by r2p2
I don\'t know who they\'re trying to target with those ads, but I\'d be highly insulted if I were them. :)

You must not have been around last time we discovered that usernames weren\'t case sensitive; Forge missed the shift key once, and somebody though \"forge\" was an imposter.

Originally Posted by SATiva
R2P2, yeah I had just seen that lame ad for Star Wars: Episode II (Yoda man).

I didn\'t realize you could format your name like this either

................and we are still waiting for BitBoys to do their thing :)

LOL @ Thresher ...

that's so true!

Unanimous:

The only bummer is that we'll STILL be waiting for Duke Nukem Forever to be released....

Just wanted to add my congratulations ...

Happy birthday T-R !!!

Just think, by T-R's gala tenth anniversery (broadcast live from Hollywood in Holovision-3D) we'll all be using the latest terahertz CPUs and multi-exabyte quantum-state storage units powered by zero point energy generators .... and we'll laugh about the primitive state of technology way back in '01, when fast CPUs came in 1GHz speed grades and 80GB was considered a lot of storage space ... and computers couldn't even read your mind or anticipate your actions!

Yoda sativa is?

It would also have been cool if there'd been something on Ars about the departure of the Drs., but I guess if Damage didn't want to spread the word we can't expect Ars to remember a traumatic event like that. ;)

Originally Posted by SATIVA
way too soft. advantage taken of.

Congrats!

Tech-Report is about tied with DrudgeReport in my daily visit list. Only site I visit more is Google.

You guys are up there with the best!

sativa:

Lay off it. Kyle and Steve didn't post about our three-year deal because I didn't send out a mailing about my "three years" article. I figured that was TR business, not news for everyone else, so I didn't ask other sites to post about it.

Sheesh.

Followed you guys over from Ars-Technica (Damage and Dr. Evil). You quickly became my number one site. In fact, this is the only site I've ever bothered to register with to get a nick and post my observations. I value this website and the content enough to not just read, but to invest a little of my time too. And that, gentlemen, is pretty amazing. When you can suck us all a little deeper into the community and get us actively involved... then you're not just reporting. You're teaching and leading as well.

Thank you (all Tech Report staff) for your time and effort. I directly gain from it.

sorry, but if i didn't say it, no one would.

your comment here is commendable though

Kyle, then why no mention of them on your front page when you do the 3-year, 2-year, 1-year ago stuff on your page. Its not like you didn't get inspiration for that shit. Diplomat you are not.

Originally Posted by FrgMstr
Thanks for the mention Scott.

Scott, Andy, Geoff, you guys are a true asset to the hardware community in general and I appreciate damn near everything you do. TR is still on of the sites I read on a daily basis.

You got my support guys, you show everybody, including us at the [H] how things should be...every once in a while. We love y\'all man! (Not in a homoerotic way though...not that there is anything wrong with that)

Will miss you at Comdex this year...but I probably won\'t remember it anyway.

Kyle Bennett
Editor-in-Chief @ [H]

Congrat, AAs a relatively new gerbil, I hate that I ,issed out on more than 2 years of the great articles and forums.

Keep up the great work, and CONGRATULATIONS!

Wow, has it been that long? It was a Damage review that brought me to Ars Technica and later to Tech Report. When I want information on hardware, I always come here first. Keep up the good work. Oh and Happy Anniversary!

Sarah

You know what I think is the greatest thing about TR?

The community and the information.

I've never built a system in my life before, but the reviews and articles on this site, plus the helpful advice from many members of the community have inspired me to go for a dual proc system straight away...

Thanks, unless I short out the house :-),
IntelMole

Originally Posted by DiM-
Forge: My first comment coincides with the first \'theft\' of some material on TR. Here\'s linkage: http://www.tech-report.com/news_reply.x/506/

However, I was here the first week, I\'m an annoying old timer. :)

Originally Posted by beesquee
Congrats
I was 16 when i first stumbled on your new site for on my then brand new Compaq k-6 500. The articles were a little over my head back then but they kept my interest. This site is what got me into computers, tech and all that which now has become one of my most enjoyable hobbies . To all my friends and family I am the resident expert in all things technical. Your simple timely and intelligent writing along with the excellent comment contributers is what make this site so great. Thanks for everything and good luck. Please stay around and please dont change.

[q]By the way, one of the funniest days i ever had reading the web was when that site stole one of your reviews, and even linked all the pictures from your servers. I 'll never forget how hard i laughed when you changed the pictures they were linking.
Talk about 0wned.
That pic with Damage jr. with a toy drill and the line that was something like;
"Is this how you run a timedemo?"[/q]

That was truly great, didn't realize that I'd been around here that long, but I still remember that. You guys truly run the best general hardware site on the Internet. Along with 2cpu tech-report is the only tech site I still hit daily. The first article I read here was the 4-port KVM roundup http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2001q3/kvm/index.x?pg=1 which HEMI (now a newsposter for 2cpu) was kind enough to point me to. I brought the IOGear model based on that review over a year ago, and I've never regretted the purchase for an instant. Performs great, just like the review said. After being pointed over here for that review I've hit TR on a more and more regular basis, and now I hit you guys several times a day.

TR always seems to be a little ahead of the curve when it comes to reviewing truly useful pieces of hardware. At the time, yours was the only review of consumer level KVMs I could find, and it's still the best written and most complete I have read. I can't think of anyone else who has yet to do a multimonitor shoot (admittedly that was less important to me since I have been using dual screens for quite some time - if I was new to multimon it would have been a goldmine). While Tom, Anand, et. al. write up reviews of 5 million motherboards or offer up relatively meaningless comparisons of whatever their sponsors feel like providing, TR consistently reviews exteremely useful hardware which up until then may well have been under-reviewed or not reviewed at all. Hopefully the manufacturers will finally begin to realize how worthwhile your site is, more and more of the /.ers who seem to be drawn th TR with every major article will become regulars, the site will grow, and we'll all be treated to even more great content. Keep up the good work guys, you truly are one of the best resources on the web.

Congrats!

Happy birthday, T-R!
I haven't been here all three years (maybe a year at most) but the site is great, definately my number one computer related site. I try and get here every day to see what is going on in the tech world. I appreciate the fact that the articles don't seem, well, Hardocp/Tomshardware-esque in their bias and that there is humor in the articles as well. T-R, along with Amdmb.com... well, their forums at least, have replaced what used to be my number one computer site (Hardocp)
The friday discussion things are always good for debate and such.

Congrats on making such a good site and here is to many more years of T-R