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AT hacked?
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2002 8:21 pm
by LikeLinus
http://www.anandtech.com and forums.ananadtech.com are saying "You do not belong here. "
Nothing else in the source code either.
LOL i think they were hacked. Deserves them right though
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2002 8:37 pm
by Sean
tsk tsk. What were you doing there?
Guess there's 88000 pissed off users... But, I guess your right, they deserved it.
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2002 8:40 pm
by LikeLinus
lol yeah i should be there ever..but its too much fun to watch those people sometimes. It's like watching geek Survivor. Whos the next idiot to get flamed and/or kicked off that wacky island.
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2002 8:41 pm
by Sean
LOL!!
That's great. I think that will be my other past-time now..
That is, if they ever come back up..
Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2002 8:48 pm
by Sean
Well, turns out they didn't lose everything..
www3.anandtech.com & forums3.anandtech.com Guess the hackers overlooked that. LOL
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2002 6:33 am
by leerus
Anybody got a screen shot of that. I am dieing. Got a buddy that when we get together to have a few tastes of St. James' Gates finest, he always starts babbling about them. Just went there and it's fixed. Anybody remember the website that collects pics of hacks????
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2002 7:35 am
by LoneWolfX1X
Originally posted by LikeLinus
lol yeah i should be there ever..but its too much fun to watch those people sometimes. It's like watching geek Survivor. Whos the next idiot to get flamed and/or kicked off that wacky island.
oh jesus....
do you have any idea how much mt dew hurts when it comes out your nose?!
Hacked Picture
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2002 11:49 am
by LikeLinus
Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2002 11:59 am
by nexus_7
Great stuff.
Greg
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:15 am
by leerus
YESSS!!! May the gods bless you LikeLinus. I am retelling the tale far and wide and a picture is worth a thousand keystrokes.
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:32 am
by JMan
Not to rain on anyone's parade, but how is this a good thing? I can see people disliking the forums because of the idiocy/chaos that goes on over there, but does Anand deserve this? Does he deserve it because he runs a popular site? I guess I can understand finding the message on the front page funny, but otherwise I don't get it.
Just a little lost here
JMan
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2002 7:26 am
by LikeLinus
It's just funny if you ever hang around there and watch the people
"but does Anand deserve this" Nope, but he definately deserves that new 911 turbo he drives, he's got a money making machine. He doesnt deserve the way he's throttling the bandwidth for non-subscribers, almost forcing people to pay him $30 a month to have any kind of acceptible viewing. Thats a rip off.
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2002 8:03 am
by Danielm7
I read it wasn't really a hack but the load balancers for the web site that went south.
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2002 9:09 am
by nexus_7
Does anyone know how much he has made off charging for those forums yet?
Greg
Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2002 11:14 am
by LikeLinus
Nope and we'll probably never know (unless we kidnap his accountant or something
)
But at $30 a pop. Lets say 4000 people have paid. Considering they say the have approximately "88,000" members, thats a good estimate (cause we all know that 40,000 of those guys are either trolls are ban).
So $30 x 4000 = $120,000.
But that money, ontop of the $$ he receives from advertising is a nice chunk of change. There are 7 advertisments on the front page alone. Two of them change in a rotation (offering more money cause you can have multiple companies on the front page). Then you have 3-4 advertisments on each review page (in a rotation). Then you have advertisments on the forums pages (rotation also).
I've kinda of wondered if he ever got any side money from companies also.
Does he write articles and do anything else? Obviously he's not hurting for money, but i'm just curious.
