I didn't visit AnandTech very often, but when I did, I found high-quality carefully written material. It seemed to have sustained that high quality information for a good long time, which is rare these days.
Editor Ryan Smith sums up the three decades.
I love the 1998 picture of Anand Lal Shimpi reviewing a motherboard!
Smith makes a good point about the challenge of finding high quality technical material nowadays:
A core belief that Anand and I have held dear for years, and is still on our About page to this day, is AnandTech’s 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 – and while we’re no longer going to be able to fulfill that role, the need for quality, in-depth reporting has not changed. If anything, the need has increased as social media and changing advertising landscapes have made shallow, sensationalistic reporting all the more lucrative.
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