I was a hardcore MaximumPC subscriber for... I don't know, basically 20 years? I was a PC hobbiest basically from 4th grade onward, and MaximumPC was my bible.

I was a hardcore MaximumPC subscriber for... I don't know, basically 20 years? I was a PC hobbiest basically from 4th grade onward, and MaximumPC was my bible. It helped me decide between the RivaTNT and the 3Dfx Voodoo. It got me obsessed with the Cambridge Soundworks 5.1 sound system that I owned for a decade. It was my touchstone for all things PC building and gaming, and it was fundamentally responsible for so much of my early PC/hacking/tinkering development, and I just remember seeing Gordon Mah Ung's bylines on _so. very. much._ of the content that I consumed and loved from MaximumPC over those years. It's hard to overstate how important his contributions were to someone anonymous like me during those formative years, but they were. RIP, Gordon. Damn.