Techgage Goes to 1,000!

With the publishing of Ryan’s Z68 SSD caching article this past Monday, we hit a significant milestone – one that took me until just last night to realise. That article marked our 1,000th piece of content, and with our first-ever having been published on March 1, 2005, it sure took us a while to get here! Despite that, it’d be impossible for me to not step back and appreciate just what we’ve accomplished. 1,000 is not a small number.

It’s been a wild ride, that’s for sure. We went from reviewing whatever we could get our hands on to having it sent to us at such a rapid pace that we often have a hard time breathing due to being surrounded by so many boxes (sadly, this isn’t much of an exaggeration!). Of course, we don’t simply review products here at Techgage, but deliver content that we think our readers would be interested in. We’ve always prided ourselves for our non-review content, which has included guides, editorials and analysis, for starters.

When we began in the spring of 2005, AMD was a force to be reckoned with, and Intel’s job was to figure out a way to regain its enthusiast and gamer customers. Since then, we’ve seen AMD and NVIDIA constantly flip-flop their positions in the graphics card market, and even today it’s hard to point at one and call them the champion. On some occasions, that wasn’t hard to do at all.

Linux in 2005 was still not refined enough for the common Joe to dive into, but today, its robustness surpasses Windows in many ways, which I’m thrilled to see. We also saw Windows XP get upgraded to Vista, and who can remember that launch? We sure can’t, as our related content garnered so much traffic, it almost brought the servers down! While Vista didn’t prove to be the OS everyone wanted, its launch was without question, one of the most interesting I’ve experienced during the life of the site up to now.

In 2005, DDR1 was all over the place, and I was a total addict to overclocking the stuff. Remember terms like “DDR-400” and “PC3200”? Wait… I better stop in case some of our readers are still running similar kit! And not long after our site launched, we saw Futuremark launch both PCMark 2005 and 3DMark 06… and just the names alone bring back a bunch of memories – which is to be expected given we benchmarked with them for so long!

I could go on forever, but for a trip down memory lane, I highly recommend checking out our articles page where all 1,000+ pieces of content is listed in chronological order.

Our site wouldn’t be what it is today without the unbelievable support of our readers, so we give a huge “Thanks!!” for being with us. We’re also appreciative of the support from the companies that allow us to write the content that we do, as without them, we wouldn’t have so many interesting things to talk about!

I’d also like to give a huge thanks to our writing staff for all their hard work, as their content is what makes this site different than the rest. Through their content, you can see that they don’t do this “just because”. They do it because they love it. I’m thankful for being around such a team, because they keep me enthusiastic about tech even when things seem a bit dull!

Our staff consists of the beloved Senior Editor and hacker extraordinaire Brett Thomas, the guru of all things overclocking and SSD, Robert Tanner, devout gamer and news editor Jamie Fletcher, our chassis and CPU cooler lovin’ Ryan Perry, and our devoted coder, who’s been with the site since before the beginning, Ben Szczytko.

I’d like to give a special personal thanks to Greg King, who’s been a devoted staffer since the fall of 2005. He’s seen all the highs and lows through the years, and has published a huge amount of content since coming on board nearly six years ago. Over the years, we’ve become great friends outside of the tech biz, and I couldn’t imagine the site being where it is without his active participation.

I’m pouring a special beer for this, so *cheers* to everyone, and here’s to another 1,000!