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Icrontic is a leading tech journal with reporting on enthusiast hardware and software, networking and security, gaming, and digital media.

Icrontic has a storied history that started in February, 2000 and it has grown a unique community of which we're very proud. Icrontic accepts member submissions and has an FAQ for new community members. Once each summer, we congregate in Warren, Michigan (US) for the Icrontic LAN Party and invite you to join us. Icrontic is owned and operated by Matt Russell and Brian Ambrozy, whom you can find on our forum as Keebler and primesuspect (respectively) because they picked those handles in grade school and have been stuck with them ever since.

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Matt Russell designed this site and created Draco, its content management system. Of course, he drew from many references. A List Apart was fundamental both for its content and design. Coudal Partners influenced our design and format, as did The Morning News. He also referenced the sites of Ars Technica, Bit-Tech, and PC Perspective and recommends Designing with Web Standards by Jeff Zeldman, (More) Eric Meyer on CSS, and the Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite by Rich Brown. We're running PHP/MySQL on Red Hat, and we're hosted by Sarcnet.

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