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July 10, 2014 1:43:49 PM

Who is Tom. I'm guessing the founder of this website? I would like information from the co-founders and maybe moderators if they know what they're talking about. I just want to know who this Tom guy is. Is Tom just a mascot? A symbol? Lol please let me know!

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July 10, 2014 1:59:14 PM

So Tom is just a symbol of this website then. Is the founder dead or something? Does his FBI tracking files say he's missing?
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July 10, 2014 2:28:51 PM

He developed the site many years ago as a hardware hobbyist, then sold it a while back to a company. He's still around. I think I saw an article by him not too long ago.
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July 10, 2014 2:31:49 PM

From Wikipedia:

History[edit]
April 1996 – Website founded in the United States by the German doctor Thomas Pabst.[2]
August 1998 – The company publishes a hardware book in cooperation with Macmillan Publishers.[3]
March 1999 – Establishes testing lab in Pleasanton, California, United States.
October 1999 – Set up of Tom's Guides Publishing AG in Germany. Establishes testing lab in Munich.[4]
June 2003 – Italian website goes live.[5]
August 2006 – Tenth anniversary.[6]
April 2007 – TG Publishing, parent company of Tom's Hardware, is acquired by the French company Bestofmedia Group.[7]
May 2007 – Tom's Hardware and iRobot launch a contest for aspiring roboticists.[8]
September 2007 – Company rebrands TwitchGuru to Tom's Games[9] and Gear Digest to Tom's Guide.[10]
February 2008 – Presence-PC become the French version of Tom's Hardware.[11]
November 2008 – Tom's Hardware launches first worldwide overclocking championship.[12]
August 2010 – AfterDawn launch Tom's Hardware in Finland.[13]
July 2013 - Bestofmedia Group, parent company of Tom's Hardware, is acquired by TechMediaNetwork, Inc.[14]
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July 10, 2014 2:34:39 PM

From Wired Magazine, 2001:

Pentium Practitioner

Thomas Pabst was trained as a doctor, but he's known to the world as the editor in chief of Tom's Hardware Guide (www.tomshardware.com), the definitive source for benchmarks and bug reports. Pabst started the site as a hobby in 1996, but his exhaustive critiques and lab data have sent more than one manufacturer back to the drawing board. Many have credited Pabst's reports with forcing Intel to halt shipping the 1-GHz Pentium III last year; this month, Intel will try again. The site's 33 million-plus monthly pageviews now bring in enough revenue to support a small staff - and to pull Pabst away from his career as an MD. Next up: Expanding the site's six languages to eight with Italian and Spanish versions.

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/9.05/mustread.ht...

Don't know where Dr. Tom is now.
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July 10, 2014 9:14:20 PM

We are all Tom.
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