AnandTech

AnandTech is one of the largest online computer hardware journals in the English-speaking world. AnandTech was founded in 1997 by then 14-year-old Anand Lal Shimpi. The website was started in 1996.

In 2004 AnandTech added a feature to search for computer prices via a price engine developed in house by the senior editor as a graduate project in data mining. This price engine is called RTPE.

In 2006 an AnandTech editor launched a spin-off called DailyTech, a technology news site. The move followed a similar evolution of the news section of AnandTech's peer publication, Tom's Hardware Guide, into TG Daily some months earlier.

Forums

With over 175,000 registered users [Link to registered user count: http://www.anandtech.com/myanandtech.aspx] and nearly 900,000 nonarchived (active in the last 90 days) threads, [Link to forum listing: http://forums.anandtech.com/] AnandTech is ranked among the largest message boards on the internet.

AnandTech contains a wide variety of sub-forums including the casual environment of AnandTech Off-Topic (or ATOT as the members call it) to the far more technical Highly-Technical forum. AnandTech also maintains several highly regulated e-commerce forums known Hot Deals and For Sale/For Trade.

The AnandTech forums are home to one of the top distributive computing teams known collectively as TeAm AnandTech (or simply The TeAm). TeAm AnandTech currently ranks 4th in the Malaria Control Project, 18th in the SETI@home project, 6th in the Rosetta@Home project, and 22nd in the Folding@Home project.

In July 2007, the forum underwent major changes that site administrators stated as necessary for furthering userbase growth. In Hot Deals, coupon codes were able to be posted once again. The profanity filter was removed (although use of vulgar language is limited), and the identities of traditionally anonymous volunteer moderators were revealed (with the exception of two). [AnandTech Forum User and Moderator Policy: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=75&threadid=2070583] Many sub-forums were restructured and added in this overhaul as well.

In February 2008, the forum held its first elections for moderators in a continuation of these changes.

AnandTech staff

*Editor In Chief & CEO - Anand Lal Shimpi
*Senior Memory & Motherboard Editor - Wesley Fink
*Senior CPU & Graphics Editor - Derek Wilson
*Chassis Editor - Joshua Buss
*Server/Software Engineer - Jason Clark
*Managing Editor - Karen Clark

References

External links

* [http://www.anandtech.com AnandTech]
* [http://forums.anandtech.com/ AnandTech Forums]
* [http://www.at-wiki.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Wiki Created by an Anandtech Member]
* [http://labs.anandtech.com AnandTech RTPE]
* [http://www.dailytech.com AnandTech News Spinoff Site, DailyTech]