1998 was a great year for so many reasons – watching Titanic at the cinema, yes, it was long and cheesy but film history nonetheless – and Kate Winslet looked fantastic. Saving Private Ryan was and still is one of the greatest war and brotherhood movies ever made. I laughed my head off seeing Cameron Diaz with THAT hair in There’s Something About Mary and winced at Ben Stiller and his zipper incident in the same movie. I still know the words to the B*Witched classic “C’est la vie” and to this day love to listen to Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing” on a long drive. But it was also a pivotal year for me, and for you guys too – it was the year I began publishing HEXUS.net.
Something that was a side project and intended to make my parents think I was doing homework, but I was in fact tapping away at my keyboard writing about AMD’s 3DNOW!, OpenSSL being developed, VMWare being founded and Chips and Technologies being bought by Intel and the release of its Celeron Processor too.
There were loads more stories apart from those of course – oh yes, and Google was formed that same year too. Illustrious company, right?
But now, after HEXUS being the cornerstone of my life and a consistent go-to for you guys too, I am calling time on it.
All good things come to an end, they say, and I would like to think that this is one of those good things that has to go away now too.
To publish 148,579 stories, this one is the 148,580th and final, for this amazing, engaged, bolshy and opinionated community has been a real pleasure and privilege. What an audience!
Every comment on the forums has made every story, each call (sometimes pleasant, sometimes angry) with the brands worthwhile.
These 23 years would have been absolutely nothing without you guys, and I give you my most sincere thanks and gratitude.
The moderators are true greats – all doing this for the love of tech and for the appreciation and respect they have for HEXUS – the little website that got me out of doing Physics homework in 1998. Truly, heartfelt praise and recognition must go to this group of awesome individuals.
I have to thank Tarinder as our editor, every contributor, every reviewer and benchmarker, the guys who worked alongside me on the commercial team too – they have all contributed to success and joy of HEXUS and of its rogue little modding brother bit-tech.net too. The brands which supported me and the team on this 23 year journey too – thank you to each and every one of you, for recognising what a great publication we put together for a wonderful audience who really care about good tech.
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