AboutHow-To Geek
How-To Geek is an online technology magazine and one of the top 500 websites in the United States. Since it was created more than a decade ago, in 2007, the site¡¯s 10,000+ in-depth articles have been read over 1 billion times. More than 30 million people read our articles every month.Our readers love How-To Geek because of its unique voice. We¡¯re not a website for geeks¡ªwe are the geeks. We¡¯re the people you turn to when your computer isn¡¯t working right, you need to do something technical, or you want to understand the latest gadgets. We explain it all in simple, approachable terms. When providing instructions, we use a copious amount of screenshots that make technical processes easy to follow. How-To Geek is for everyone.How-To Geek has been recommended as an expert resource by industry groups like?the Wi-Fi Alliance?and newspapers like?The New York Times. Organizations like?the BBC?and?Wirecutter?have directed their readers to us for our helpful tutorials. Technology news outlets like?Techmeme,?The Verge,?Slate,?Digital Trends,?TechCrunch, and John Gruber¡¯s?Daring Fireball?have linked to stories we¡¯ve broken. We¡¯ve been cited as a source in books like?Team Human?by Douglas Rushkoff, a media theory professor at the City University of New York¡¯s Queens College and CNN contributor. How-To Geek has been used as a resource for everything from?university textbooks?to late-night TV.Based in Virginia, How-To Geek is an independent company that remains wholly owned by its founders, Lowell Heddings and Erik Wang. Unlike many other websites, How-To Geek was built without any outside investment or corporate ownership. It remains an independent organization today.