TPU's History

ste2425 · Apr 30, 2013

Im just curious how did TPU start?

Im lead to believe Wiz was the bloke who set our lovely community up but was there other people involved?

Was it always this popular and this active with so many reviews and news stories on a weekly basis because when I joined back in 08 I think it was very much in its prime, which it still is.

Was it just a hobby because the founders got bored one day?

I visit TPU more then once day but have no idea how it came about and any hurdles or hardships that crept up when it was in its infancy.

Did Wiz and anyone else involved in setting this up know what they do today or was it a steep learning curve from knowing not allot about hosting and more over managing a forum?

I guess allot of us take TPU for granted, me also, without knowing what it took to get TPU to what it is today.

3870x2 · Apr 30, 2013

I think a lot of us who came here in TPUs mid-life (2008) might like to hear something like this. This may have also already been explored in detail.

ste2425 · Apr 30, 2013

3870x2 said:
This may have also already been explored in detail.

That very true and if it has I apologise. I tried a search but didn't find any answers, i haven't looked in the GN forum however.

Black Panther · Apr 30, 2013

GN was created much after TPU was born.

Also, you might like to check out this.

ste2425 · Apr 30, 2013

Wow

dorsetknob · May 1, 2013

Joined in March 2005

Guess I'm one of the early members, Not sure when the site first started but would love to find out exactly when the site first went live,
I'm not a prolific poster but log on several times a day .

digibucc · May 1, 2013

i haven't been here since the beginning, but it's the only place for me. There really is something different in the water here, that makes it the best forum i know.

Tatty_Two · May 1, 2013

dorsetknob said:
Joined in March 2005

Guess I'm one of the early members, Not sure when the site first started but would love to find out exactly when the site first went live,
I'm not a prolific poster but log on several times a day .

Roughly first half of 2004, probably April or May, there is a way through the advanced search function to find out some very old and interesteing posts

First Pic shows search function with what you need to set to do the job (and get oldest posts to appear first), second pic may well be as a result of that search, the first forum pos W1z ever made !! :peace:

Mindweaver · May 1, 2013

I started coming here way before I joined the forums, mainly searching for tools for my ati 9800 pro, and some news. :toast:

So, I'd guess late 2004 early 2005.

Sasqui · May 1, 2013

And this one time... in band camp, :laugh:

Remember when the servers went down sometime in 2005 or 2006 and all posts for like 2-3 weeks were lost?

brandonwh64 · May 1, 2013

The first time I surfed TPU was in the summer/fall of 2005 when I was over in Iraq for my first deployment. I was looking for ATI 9000m 128MB drivers and some other drivers but never found them. I would pop up periodically to diagnose issues and drivers from then on until after I got out of the military and wanted to join the community for all the help it had given me!

Tatty_Two · May 1, 2013

I joined to try and get more info on how to unlock ROP's on an old 6800 vanilla card. I kind of didn't realise the time then before I knew it I had been here several years :eek:

de.das.dude · May 1, 2013

been here since 2010 after i got the internet. coming here every day since then.

PS: i like the retro look. very steam punk-ish

WhiteLotus · May 1, 2013

I remember mods such as polaris, zek, wazzledoodle, and thermo. Don't know if they were the original guys or not.

Batou1986 · May 1, 2013

ste2425 said:
http://img.techpowerup.org/130430/dfhgfdhgfgh.jpg

Wow

i remember coming here first for Ati tool to oc my 9800pro lurked for a long time learning things then signed up in 05

ste2425 · May 1, 2013

I can't remember the reason why i joined, probably was for help build my first pc. I do remember some the first things I posted, very embarrassing :shadedshu Was the first forum I became a member of. Still is the only computer orientated forum im a member of too.

Frogger · May 1, 2013

ste2425 said:
lead to believe Wiz was the bloke who set our lovely community up

when a Humble PHP coder set off in to the WWW from
http://web.archive.org/web/20040218180032/http://www.ocfaq.com/about.php
:toast:

PatoRodrigues · May 1, 2013

Joined late last year to see some news and get some info for a possible build...

As digibucc said, there's something different in the water around here. Can't stand brazilian forums, lots of ignorant people and not much knowledge.

Hopefully i'll be a active user around here for some years to come.

ste2425 · May 1, 2013

PatoRodrigues said:
Hopefully i'll be a active user around here for some years to come.

Its like Pringle's. When you pop you just can't stop.

AlienIsGOD · May 1, 2013

i frequented the site since 06 and in 2008 when i got my first decent PC ( Q9450, 4850 crossfire) and i've used the advice from reviews and other members to build the rigs i have today.

FreedomEclipse · May 1, 2013

de.das.dude said:
very steam punk-ish

Its nothing like steampunk.

THIS is steampunk

ste2425 · May 1, 2013

FreedomEclipse said:
http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/cosplay-steampunk2.jpg

I bet that chafes.

qubit · May 2, 2013

When did TPU start? Easy: 14 May 2004.

How do I know? Check out W1zzard's join date. As he founded it, his account was created at the same time the forum software was installed.

Tatty_Two · May 2, 2013

qubit said:
When did TPU start? Easy: 14 May 2004.

How do I know? Check out W1zzard's join date. As he founded it, his account was created at the same time the forum software was installed.

Spot on, and his first ever post was the following day

DannibusX · May 2, 2013

Legend has it that TPU was actually a placeholder name for W1zzards HookerzNbloW website, which he wanted to launch after looking into German law regarding exactly what content HookerzNbloW could host.

GPU-Z was originally designed to be a cocaine blood level timer to give much more accurate results for people who needed to do regular drug testing for work, but he found out that the acronym for Cocaine Per Unit - Zamboozle was already taken by a computer monitoring software.

While on a 3 month bender designing HookerzNbloW he accidentally uploaded the placeholder TechPowerUp! website and became depressed about the situation because it would cost him a bit of cash to replace all of the code and software uploaded to the servers.

So he just rolled with it, redid the cocaine calculator into a GPU monitoring product and started doing GPU reviews, as well as turning the original nostril and straw logo upside down so it resembled a power icon.

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TPU's History

ste2425

3870x2

ste2425

Black Panther

ste2425

dorsetknob

"YOUR RMA REQUEST IS CON-REFUSED"

digibucc

Tatty_Two

Gone Fishing

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Mindweaver

Moderato®™

Sasqui

brandonwh64

Addicted to Bacon and StarCrunches!!!

Tatty_Two

Gone Fishing

de.das.dude

Pro Indian Modder

WhiteLotus

Batou1986

ste2425

Frogger

PatoRodrigues

ste2425

AlienIsGOD

Vanguard Beta Tester

FreedomEclipse

~Technological Technocrat~

ste2425

qubit

Overclocked quantum bit

Tatty_Two

Gone Fishing

DannibusX

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