Engadget turns 5!

A wise man once said: "Life moves pretty fast -- if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

At Engadget, that's more than true. We're usually so busy with our heads down -- fingers furiously tapping away on keyboards, news flying in at a breakneck pace -- that we barely have time to take measure of it all. We've been so busy, in fact, that we somehow managed to miss our own 5th birthday... by over a month! If you want to date check that, you can read our very first post right here.

Luckily, we happen to have the most amazing group of readers in the world, and one of them, rock99rock, shook us out of our news-trance and reminded us that we should probably spare a little time for reflection.

So, we don't want to make a huge deal of it, but we do want to thank everyone who visits the site everyday and keeps making it what it is. We'd be nothing without the eyes and minds of the obsessive, brilliant, and frankly handsome fans that are as voracious about reading tech news as we are about writing it. You're the soul of Engadget, and we thank you from the bottom of our cold, robotic hearts.

-Team Engadget

Bonus round: Stay tuned for a contest in celebration of the big event coming later today -- and have some cake for us!

[Generic Posted Apr 14th 2009 7:28PM]

Thank you for frankly calling me a handsome fan :p

[nirvanalx Posted Apr 14th 2009 7:37PM]

Congrats! I spend way too much time on this site.

[atk0506 Posted Apr 14th 2009 8:01PM]

happy 5th year of success. Hope you guys keep on troll'in~

[BurtReynolds Posted Apr 14th 2009 8:07PM]

GG engadget.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 14th 2009 8:02PM]

Hey engadget, today's my birthday too! Great minds think alike.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 15th 2009 12:05AM]

yay ENGADGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[VanillaSpice Posted Apr 14th 2009 8:51PM]

Happy birthday, and congrats, and here's to the next five years of the best articles, and here's to the next five years of the worst troll and hater comments to be found outside slashdot.

[Quad5Ny Posted Apr 14th 2009 9:46PM]

Happy Birthday guys, I read you every day.

[andaraes Posted Apr 14th 2009 9:52PM]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! thank you guys so much for always being there whenever i needed by tech update. you have been a constant companion for the last several years of my life. i couldn't ask for a better blog than you!

ok, enough with the sentimental, i'll just leave it at: you're awesome!

[Lord Farkward Posted Apr 14th 2009 9:54PM]

Happy B-day guys, you're awesome.

[Computermaster Posted Apr 14th 2009 11:04PM]

Happy Birthday Engadget!

By the way, the cake is a lie.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 14th 2009 11:09PM]

Happy Birthday! Five years ago T-flash (now Trans Flash) held about 32MB and now it almost holds 32GB!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 14th 2009 11:10PM]

Does that mean in five years Translocation Flash will hold 32TB?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 14th 2009 11:20PM]

Congrates

[Loc13 Posted Apr 15th 2009 1:36AM]

Happy Birthday Engadget!!

Feels like you guys have been around wayyyyy longer than that!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 15th 2009 2:22AM]

Happy birthday!

And woot for rock99rock!

[doog Posted Apr 15th 2009 2:40AM]

happy belated!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 15th 2009 2:42AM]

Happy Birthday

Yeah! 5 Years Apple Fanboyism!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 15th 2009 7:19AM]

Happy Birthday Engadget!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 15th 2009 9:18AM]

Congrats!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 15th 2009 11:16PM]

i love this blog.. what else would i do at work?