Slashdot Mirror

This website is a historical mirror of slashdot.org, a once-popular social news website. Slashdot was a significant hub in the 2000's and early 2010's for news about tech and open source software. Slashdot is still operating today but the site has deteriorated after several rounds of aquisitions and redesigns. It's difficult to navigate, and signups are disabled for new users. This mirror provides a streamlined UI for browsing and searching old stories.

This mirror is backend by a corpus from a site-wide crawl of Slashdot that was performed in 2019 and uploaded to the Internet Archive. The corpus includes all stories and comments that were posted on slashdot from 1998 to 2019. The comments were crawled in "flat" mode which means that full comment threading was not captured, but it has been partially reconstructed. You can browse stories, topics, users, or run full-text search across all stories and comments. Below are some jumping off points to get started!