{"id":41630,"date":"2024-08-30T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.defyperception.net\/wp\/?p=41630"},"modified":"2024-08-30T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T00:00:52","slug":"end-of-the-road-an-anandtech-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defyperception.net\/wp\/?p=41630","title":{"rendered":"End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"

End of the Road: An AnandTech Farewell<\/a><\/p>\n

The news of AnandTech coming to an end is the end of a website from my early internet. There are a lot of websites from the early internet that I followed and that have ended or disappeared, but there are few that I will remember as fondly as AnandTech. <\/p>\n

In the late 1990’s and through the mid-2000’s, AnandTech was a site that I visited almost daily. It was one of the best tech news websites as it was updated daily and it had one of the best communities\/forums for other tech-news obsessed people, like myself. It was in the AnandTech forums that I found that others were commenting and weighing-in on everything from the latest tech news, different and experimental operating systems, and a host of other topics not related to tech. For awhile there, it was really a great online community to belong. It was in those forums that I found that others were overclocking their CPU’s in attempts to get more performance out of their PC’s and I caught the bug of pushing my PC hardware to its limits. <\/p>\n

It was always the quality of the articles on AnandTech–the writing, photography, in-depth research, comparisons, benchmarks, testing, etc.–that pulled me in as a daily reader. It was that level of quality that I feel set the bar for all tech news and review sites that followed–Engadget, The Verge, etc. <\/p>\n

In those days, it seemed like every week the technology was advancing so fast that if you didn’t stay up to date you’d miss out on what was the latest technology. In hindsight, it may be because of how closely that I followed the news and forums on AnandTech that I upgraded my PC every year between 1998 and 2005 just to be on the bleeding edge. <\/p>\n

At some point in the mid-2000’s, PC’s got to be fast enough and the need to stay ahead and informed of the latest and best technology waned for me. The PC that I built in 2005 was powerful enough to hold me over 2-3 years. It seemed like the advances in CPU speed and PC technologies were incremental year-over-year and at the same time, my PC needs were leveling out. In the last 10 years, I’ve only upgraded my PC twice and in both instances, I read the reviews of the CPU’s, motherboards, GPU’s, and other components on AnandTech (and other websites) that helped inform my purchase. <\/p>\n

Finally, I\u2019d like to end this piece with a comment on the Cable TV-ification of the web. A core belief that Anand and I have held dear for years, and is still on our About page to this day, is AnandTech\u2019s rebuke of sensationalism, link baiting, and the path to shallow 10-o’clock-news reporting. It has been our mission over the past 27 years to inform and educate our readers by providing high-quality content…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Besides today’s article on AnandTech, I couldn’t tell you the last article or forum post I read on AnandTech. If I had to guess, it would have been a GPU review in the last two years. To be fair, I couldn’t tell you about the latest tech article I’ve read on The Verge, Ars Technica, etc., either. However, I could tell you about MKBHD’s Google Pixel 9 review, his iPhone 15 review, or his car reviews. MKBHD is one of the few tech channels that I follow for his quality, attention to detail, professionalism, etc. I can also point to people I follow on Threads and Mastodon and sub-Reddit’s where I know I can read up on a topic or get honest takes and reviews. All independent and none of them affiliated with AnandTech.<\/p>\n

AnandTech had a great run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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