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Originally Posted by Double Down
Seriously, though, some really really good times. Oh, and my father never ended up writing one article for fivestarreview.com. In fact, the website has been defunct for over a decade.
cliffs: Every year, my dad attends and cashes in on the free stuff and awesomeness of the CES as a registered member of the press for an online magazine that no longer exists.
I expect/am prepared to get **** on for questioning this very entertaning story, but I find it incredible that your pops could continue to get a press badge given the required credential check:
http://www.cesweb.org/faq/pressFAQs.asp#1779
and even if he could have slipped through a few times, isn't it peculiar that the organizers wouldn't get wise to somebody who is making off with a much greater than normal level of swag in a conspicuous fashion and check to see if he's from a legitimate site? I mean, maybe it's normal to scam a bunch of stuff from the show, but given the description of your dad, I'm guessing he wouldn't be able to help himself from making a comical scene out of procuring free stuff.
also, I'm not necessarily sure how accurate the results at archive.org are, but:
http://web.archive.org/web/200601071...tarreview.com/
assuming that's the right site, of course. I'm not sure it is, since the activity dates appear to be 2000-2008, but it supposedly archives all incarnations of the domain since 1996.
I guess it could also be:
http://web.archive.org/web/200401011...arreviews.com/
but this site doesn't even appear to have technology reviews, and it's been active for about the same time period as the other site.
I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation for all of this, it just sounds so far-fetched is all.
skepticism aside, your dad has to be a ridiculous hoarder, yes?