Guide Note

Ars Technica is a blog devoted primarily to technology news. The site also covers popular community topics, including game reviews, hardware reviews, and technology-related editorial columns. The site's administrators encourage community participation in its discussion boards.¹

Fast Facts

1. Site launched: 1998
2. Founder: Ken "Caesar" Fisher¹
3. Site name means "The art of technology" in Latin
4. Slogan: "Serving the Technologist for over 8x10^-2 centuries"
5. Bought by Condé Nast in May, 2008²
6. Unconfirmed price: $25 million³

Ars Technica also sponsors distributed computing teams. Networks of individuals contribute spare processing power on their personal computers to collectively perform massive calculations that would ordinarily take up huge resources in a single supercomputer. Ars Technica's teams are named after food, and they are collectively referred to as the Ars Food Court.⁴