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Slashdot Turns 5
As much as I avoid discussing Slashdot on Slashdot, I figured I'd just take
a moment to say that Slashdot is 5 years old now. I've written a
Journal Entry with a few more comments on the subject. And yes we know we jumped the shark about a week after we registered the domain name, but we just don't care! Here's hoping we're here 5 years from now doing exactly the same thing with the same folks. (As a side note, due to a data importing bug, we really don't know exactly when we made our debut, but I spent september 97 putting the site together... and when we went live, we didn't even have comments for the first week or so!)
You get comments almost immediately! First Post!
when we went live, we didn't even have comments for the first week or so!)
A whole week before a "First Post" appeared. Bliss.
I am a Karma Library.
They didn't buy a Super Bowl ad.
You've taken five years away from my life and I want them back now!
If not, the penguin gets it :P
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
well then. happy birthday!
Who knew that decay could start at such a young age?
That are not corporate sites, like Microsoft.com, etc
I'm talking...ad-supported.
Happy Birthday... whens the party?
Harder.. Better.. Faster.. Stronger
Slashdot is the site I spent 90% on when I'm connected to the internet. It's the first thing I read every day.
Slashdot is a source of info, of pure fun and of substancial debates.
Congrats, Mista Taco!
{{.sig}}
now i can out geek all the geeks i know, by telling them i have the same birthday as slashdot.
woo-hoo.
(pretend there's something witty here)
Since theres an article about Slashdot on Slashdot, does that mean Slashdot is going to get Slashdotted?
Here is the full text from the Journal Entry...
Tuesday mornings are my early days. We split 'em up between the authors, but tuesday and sundays are mine. I got up at 7:20, showered, picked up a cup of coffee at the local shop, and was at the office by 7:45. I deleted about 30 submissions by 8:10, and posted my first story of the morning.
Its another typical tuesday at Slashdot... except that this time around, we're 5 years old. FIVE years. Thats almost 20% of my life. All of my post collegiate life, plus some. Slashdot has been my full time job for 4 years now. I've been deleting submissions and posting stories for what seems like forever. We've posted nearly 30,000 stories. Deleted a million submissions. Served half a billion pages. And we've come a long way from those days of serving a few thousand pages a day from a little DEC Alpha Multia.
And ya know what? I wouldn't trade it for anything. I work with some of the most creative and fun people I've ever met. I have interesting work that only rarely gets boring. Flexible hours (excluding those pesky tuesday mornings
Even though we jumped the shark approximately 4.99 years ago, I'd like to thank everyone who's still reading, and everyone who helps make this site go 'round each and every day. Specifically, the Coders (Jamie, Krow, CowboyNeal & Pudge) and the writers (Timothy, Michael, & Hemos) as well as the countless folks that have helped make Slashdot what it is under the scenes (Everyone in #slashdot-authors, and all the folks who handle stuff like HR and let us just run the site)
So once again... I love my job. Here's hoping that in 5 years, I can say that once again, in this forum. Now Subscribe, or click on banner ads, or buy something from ThinkGeek to help keep us going.
-- -- Warning. Do not stare directly at the sun.
Happy Birthday! from The Dominican Republic
Feliz Cumpleaños desde La Republica Dominicana
My house.. BYOC.. and BYOB while we're at it
:-D
UT2K3, Q3, CS, Civ 3
If we get enough money.. maybe we can get a stripper too
On a related note, it would be interesting for someone to study the effects of /. on society, along the same lines as this story. I don't know about anyone else, but /. tends to be one of my greatest joys and frustrations all in one. The ability to voice your opinion in such an open manner can have a staggering effect, and I would be interested to see a study trying to quantify exactly what that effect is.
"Herbivores eat well cause their food never, ever runs."
Anyone have a mirror of the story's link? The server's been slashdotte..... no, wait.
Great effort, to have surivived so long.
Well done.
Alas gallinaceas de urbe bovis volo
How many registered users are there anyhow? Any count on active heads as well?
Sometimes, I feel like an old geezer having a user ID of 3264, when I see user IDs in the 6 digits range.
Five years of
- AYBABTU
- Can you imagine a beowolf cluster of these?
- Natalie Portman naked and petrified
- Hot grits (down your pants)
- First post!
- goatse.cx
- Page widening
- BSD is dying
- Author Stephen King dead at 54
Like I said, feels like more..."If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
I've been visiting Slashdot religiously for three years, ever since I saw a co-worker of mine reading it. I thought the news headlines seemed interesting so I got into it too, and now I'm addicted to Slashdot. Thank you, Mr. Malda and the other folks behind the scenes, for setting up one of the best news sites out there.
"Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steve Wright
aw... happy birthday to little baby rob malda's little baby.... how cute...
What does "jump the shark" mean? SOunds very strange to me but, maybe it's my English.
Who was the first ever first poster?
Pretty much most of it for the past 4 and a half years ... I think I joined back in december, or january ... and I've enjoyed every minute using slashdot.
Thanks for all your hard work - slashdot is now truly entrenched as part of the heart of the online techy community. (Or at least, it's screaming vocal cords).
May there be many happy returns!
Good on ya /.
I've been with ya the whole way... and it's been sweet, sweet as!
Long live Linix!
=)
"We've posted nearly 30,000 stories. Deleted a million submissions. Served half a billion pages." ..and brought thousands of servers worldwide to their knees.
Did you bitch at yourselves?
Bravo to all involved in /. ....also all the geeks that made this place a 'community' where we like so much do anything else except working :)
Wonder who got the first First Post?
If you can't see the value in jet powered ants you should turn in your nerd card. - Dunbal (464142)
Hauling Down And Stomping Websites For Over 5 Years.
Every webmasters nightmare.
If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
I can't wait for someone to submit this story in a week and it gets posted again.
It's amazing to see how far we've come in such a short time. Five years ago we were all still using Linux 2.0, Microsoft was in court with Apple over the look and feel of Windows for Workgroups (well, some things never change, I guess), and Monica Lewinsky was in the papers every day (hey, not news for nerds, but we all live in real life, too...sometimes!).
/code and this site--there's nothing like it anywhere else on the web--and to the great community that makes /. so special. You guys are the best friends (and friends of friends!) a lone hacker could ask for, when he isn't debugging perl in vi!
Many of us slashdotters have grown as well. From humble beginnings to the dizzying heights of the dot.com boom to the unemployment line (and mom and dad's house again). But it gives us more time to hack on Free Software, so bring it on!
I'd just like to say "thanks" to Rob & the gang who put in long hours on
Here's to hoping the next half-decade is as good as the last. Cheers.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
There. Better. Too much time in bash lately.
Any record of the first site to be slashdotted?
I am a Karma Library.
With one of the top stories on the same date five years ago featured again.
This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for higher security.
Here is the oldest archived one
Happy Birthday Slashdot!
Congrats! I sure hope that you last another 5 five years. But is the site profitable? Could it stand on its own? Could you guys buy it back if VA decides to shut it down?
Lasers Controlled Games!
Seeing as how it looks like everyone will have to get a post in on this story, I might as well join the club.
Just for old times sake, anyone still have that "History of the World According to Slashdot" post still floating around?
It hurts when I pee.
I think I am getting all teared up. I remember back in the day when I trolled here. Now I am semi-legit. Its no fun to troll now- I guess Taco achieved what he wanted. Me and my friends got into a arguement one time about whether Cmdr stands for Commander or Comodore- what is your opinion?
Real men dump cores! Read my journal, I am neat.
whe it went live.
when the first story that had >100 comments.
when the first troll appeared.
when the first post crap started.
when the hot grits appeared.
when we were blessed (should I use that word?) with goat-you-know-who..(ICK!)
when the fist bout of taco-bashing started..
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
about the Lone Gunman fiasco.
>
We've posted nearly 30,000 stories. Deleted a million submissions.
Wow, a 3% acceptance rate. Considering the signal to noise ratio in the discussion, that's pretty good!
I think the Joker's planning something for the big Slashdot Birthday Bash in downtown Gotham, Michigan. All those people...but what's his plan?
What should we do, Batman?
Here's hoping we're here 5 years from now doing exactly the same thing with the same folks.
:) *steps off soap-box*
Anyone else wondering what the world will be like over 5 years? What will MSFT, AOL and 'em other monopolies *nudge* look like? Will they even exist?
Considering that 5 years ago PCs and the Internet were just starting to pick up speed on the market, one can't help but wonder what this will result in.
And not just technology. There's also the PATRIOT-act, the DMCA, the risk of Gulf War II, rumours about a recession of the economy (at least in 1929 it was obvious what was going on =P ).
It makes you wonder how we will look back on these political and economical events.
Aye, one more thing: don't even attempt to predict the future. We're all familiar with the grand expectations raised by a variety of companies and organizations around '95, how the 'net would [fill in idealistic view], and [ditto].
Alright, I'm done
Site & blog: http://www.mayaposch.com
But I'm glad to see Slashdot has matured since then. Now they realize that sometimes banning someone's netblock is just plain necessary when that person is posting non-factual information. If some innocent net neighbors are gagged for a few days, that's simply the price we pay for informational freedom. And deleting posts, while morally abhorrent, is the only way to keep ourselves from accidentally reading a 3 page long "taco snotting" FAQ.
Thank you, Slashdot, for making the trains run on time.
Just wondering how everyone heard about slashdot and got "hooked". I remember I first heard about it during my internship in the summer of '98. (So I guess that makes me a vetran slashdot reader). Anyway, a linux consultant geek came in and showed it to me. When/why/where did you first start reading slashdot?
Here is a link to the first posting available on the Wayback Machine. Wayback
It is from Dec 21st, 1997 and talks about how Netscape may be in danger from Internet Explorer. Can CmdrTaco pick 'em or what?
Other than some ridiculous mental imagery (jumping on sharks? eh? *shrug*) I have nothing with this metaphor/proverb/whatchamacallit. Please clue me in.
It does seem like just his style. We'll have to be on our toes. I've run a quick analysis on the Batcomputer, and I think I have a hunch as to his next move.
To the Batmobile, Robin!
Why do you avoid discussing Slashdot on Slashdot? Are you afraid of getting Slashdotted?
Notice that already then people were complaining about MS :)
That's Interesting, that corresponds with a slow drop in productivity of the Tech sector...
Hmmm
Technology is most abused by the very people it was created to help
Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door--that way Lumberg can't see me, heh--after that I sorta space out for an hour.
Yeah, I just read Slashdot, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
Thanks Slashdot! Happy B-Day from all the Peter Gibbon's in this world!
How about a series of links highlighting great moments in Slashdot history?
* The first "First Post"
* First Linux vs. Windows vs. Mac vs. vi vs. emacs flamewar
* First post lamenting broken business models
* First post by Wil Wheaton
* Posts removed by the Scientologists
* Jon Katz making sense in the pre-September 11 and pre-columbine world.
Any more suggestions?
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
if we could get statistics or maybe even a story from the web masters who have been slashdotted. /. did the site go down? /. effect?
How many hits?
How soon after the story gets posted on
What did the web master think was happening before he realized the
Why anonymous cowards are considered TROLLS?
How I can make my living as a 'pet troll'?
...and of course, happy birthday slashdot! (yeah yeah, reply to myself, sorry... Can't believe I forgot to congratulate the dot)
I've seen some in 100 range, but never under 100.
is that you treasure your little four-dig. "Why... in my day..."
/. come on lines. Course my karma's excellent, baby. I ain't no troll. Now come here for a sec, you've gotta click here to log in.
It's this weird unspoken thing that low-digit users here are like elders. Their posts carry that little extra weight, like the withered old geek has just stood up at the town meeting, or something equally rediculous.
Anyway, if anyone needs me, I'll be in a bar, trying out my new
Slashdot hasn't been ad supported all of those 5 years. The first 3 years were supported with dot.com bubble mania venture capital money that was very unwisely spent on companies such as these. I mean its not like the revenue projections of Slashdot are going to make any investors who buy into the stock NOW very rich.
Mac OS X and Windows XP working side by side to fight back the night.
I think for keeping Taco gainfully employed she should buy us (each, not collectively, it is cold and flu season) a beer at the next /. meetup in Ann Arbor!
it's not going to stop until you wise up, no it's not going to stop. so just give up.
I started scanning /. about three years ago. I had just started with a new company, and no other company I had worked for previously allowed lowly employees like me internet access. With slow dial-up at home, this data pipe into my work computer was amazing.
/. through some mention in a Canadian magazine I had purchased at an airport. Now, I'm not techno-geek, but I'm also not a techno-phobe. Yes, I have Windows. But yes, I run Mozilla. I'm kind of "middle of the road" when it comes to computers.
/. to be at the very least interesting, and at the very most informative and entertaining. I've learned a lot about computers, programming and technology through this site. But I've also learned a lot about law, public opinion and other diverse topics.
/. posters, it's frequently the most stimulating thing I read all day.
/. and the /. community.
/., I've managed to use a lot of what I read to my advantage. frequently, my coworkers will come to me for problems instead of bothering with our slowwwwww IT dept!
I found
I've always found the content on
I may have missed the first two years, but I'll read for the next two to make up. Although I may not always agree with
Thanks,
SIDE NOTE -- because of
Well done, everyone -- well done.
Carousel is a lie!
Is [substantial debate] in a secret section that I don't have access to? :-)
Here's the section.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Mention of slashdot 'jumping the shark' was first mentioned in this comment
Now what ya know, Slashdot and myself share birthdays, Happy Birthday to us! Feels strange to admit that I'm a full 22 years older than Slashdot!
I guess that makes /. a Libra. . .
How many years is that in Internet time?
I may be bad with names, but I'll never forget your IP address
Happy Birthday
It looks to me like the first article was posted 33 years ago!
Or the real oldest article in the database from New Year's Eve 1998.
we didn't even have comments for the first week or so!
Is this the 'Golden Age of Slashdot' that I hear so much about?
The opposite of progress is congress
And deleting posts, while morally abhorrent, is the only way to keep ourselves from accidentally reading a 3 page long "taco snotting" FAQ.
Slashdot generally does not delete comments. Among over 4 million comments posted after the moderation system began, fewer than a half-dozen have been deleted, mostly for flagrant copyright infringement. Other than that, you can get 99.999% of everything posted, even the trash, by reading at -1.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Here's a link to the site. Strange they didn't provide one in the article. Perhaps they're afraid it'll get Slashdotted?
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
Like all the others and their brothers, Happy Birthday /.! Live Long and Prosper \\//_.
And Scott McCollum writes his anti-Linux hate reports against slashdot and linux... http://www.worldtechtribune.com/worldtechtribune/s marc.asp
Several stories on prior to September 11 on VA Linux(TM) propaganda web site and geek nexus Slashdot (who offered the advice: "Be incomprehensible. If they can't understand, they can't disagree" at the bottom of their web page on October 4, 2001) reported that the European Union would do all it could to destroy Microsoft if the US federal courts owned by corporate America didn't have the guts.
The Free Software Foundation's legal counsel offered an anti-Microsoft/Bush/capitalism diatribe in The Nation while the bodies of capitalist pigs burned beneath the World Trade Center.
http://www.worldtribune.com/wta/Archive-2001/mc10_ 05.html
I'm sorry, but what does "Jumped the shark" mean?
Just wondering...
Who were the first users to sign up? where did they go?
Editors have unlimited mod points. And they've been seen to use them massively (which means they are presumably willing to use them singly as well). This means that Editors can send any comment they want to -1, which makes it non-archivable. You might argue that they wouldn't do such a thing. You just keep telling yourself that.
So, how long before /. gets hit with a Patent infringement lawsuit? I mean, someone HAD to have come up with a patent that described a method of communicating with other people...
due to a data importing bug, we really don't know exactly when we made our debut,
You mean you didn't backup your database before you did your import ??? And what kind of import could ruin the imported data, anyways ??
Note to self: never take sysadmin'ing advice from Taco.
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The first usenet posting (or at least the first i could find) that mentions slashdot seems to be this one dated Nov. 11 - 1997. That seems to be fairly soon after the release IMO.
Incompetence Floats
Does that mean its toliet trained?
I would also suggest this link as a good place to look for info about the term.
The page is titled "Chronicling The Moments When TV Shows Go Downhill"
RudeDude
Perl/Linux/PHP hacker
Early slashdot is just as valuable as early usenet, and I think we need to find a way to make it accessible. Isn't there some NNTP gateway code somewhere? Could slashdot export month-old stories for google groups to pick up? I bet the google guys would even help develop a new protocol if necessary.
Most valuable of all would be to establish a mechanism that other web discussion boards could use, and encourage them to make their archives available. Imagine the power of all your favorite weblogs searchable through one interface. This would be a boon for users and net historians alike.
The evaluation of an action as 'practical' . . . depends on what it is that one wishes to practice.
Who else remembers the days of Chips n Dips? :-)
/. readers, I have to say it's been incredible watching this site grow into what it has become. Congratulations Taco and the rest of the crew; you have not only created a wonderful destination for nerds interested in stuff that matters, but you have also at least in some part created an entire genre of sites. For this, we all thank you.
As one of the first
the Happy Birthday song. As you may or may not know, the rights are owned by Warner-Chappell Music. You will have to pay royalties.
It generates $1 million in annual royalties. You can hum it, though, since only the lyrics are protected.
-nd
Back when I was running Red Hat 4.2. I have 1300 comments (this is 1301). 1300. At approx 1 to 2 minutes per comment that's 20 to 40 hours spent commenting on slashdot. Shit. I want that day back!
Best Slashdot Co
Way OT, but I love your .sig! Where did it originate from? Did you write it?
Wooden armaments to battle your imaginary foes!
Your email has been deleted for your convenience, and your pr0n is tucked safely away on a backup tape for future blackm^H^H^H^H^H^H reference.
Don't touch our computers anymore.
We know where you live.
Thanks goes to the people that puts a golden lining on the internet! Slashdot is the best site in the world for techies that wants to know.
/. and envy it?
I wonder just how much Microsoft admires
HTTP/1.1 400
Funny how this appeared just above the "what is the net doing to you" article. That is some perverse synchronicity.
I don't even remember my first post or when exactly it was I first registered. I used to think having a UID above 10,000 made me a Jonny come lately. Now I'm like the girzzled old man that shoos little kids off his front lawn. Maybe from now on I'll use a hose instead of my cane.
Windows still sucks, Linux is still in beta, AMD makes chips worth buying, 3Dfx is no more, AOL is spelled EVIL, Apple is cool again, Be is no longer cool (sorry OpenBeOS guys), Netscape is abbriviated EVIL, Internet Explorer still sucks, Lord of the Rings was finally made into a movie, The Phantom Menace blew goats, Natalie Portman is still hot despite her lack of petrification, apparently all my base are belong to someone, the internet is now aplace where evil cool people hang out, being a geek still gets you beat up, slashdot has advertisements, Rob STILL doesn't acknowlege story submitters and user comments as being important in the slightest to the popularity of slashdot, Stephen King has died several times at various ages, and even I have imagined a Beowulf cluster of naked and petrified Natalie Portmans pouring hot grits down my pants.
It's been a strange five years. If I didn't like the ride can I get a refund?
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
In early November of 1998, I spent the better part of an hour attempting to make an account on Slashdot. I just couldn't make it work. No matter what username that I put in, and I tried some weird shit, it would complain that "a user already exists with that user name or email address." I knew it couldn't be the e-mail address, what with my highly-personalized address, so I e-mailed Rob asking what was what.
/. and when I would have made an account. Sometimes I think I've sleptwalked through entire years of my life.
Well, Rob wrote me back in something like 60 seconds, suggesting that perhaps I already had an account. "Balderdash," I thought, I would certainly know if I'd made an account on a site or not. I'd never even heard of Slashdot until a week previously. But I went to the site, entered my e-mail address in the lost-password form and, lo and behold, I'd made an account at some point. God only knows when.
So my question is this: who has a user ID close to mine, and when did you make your account? I'd love to check my datebook for around that time and see if I can conjure up when I would have first read
-Waldo Jaquith
Here's to /.!!!!
... so you bastards better have many more 5 year anniversaries!!! :)
/. and the people that make it possible!
/. some respect and do a little haapy dance in celebration of /.'s 5 year b-day (but don't look at the seat of your old crusty chair ... that would ruin this historical moment)
.... just smile instead :)
5 years and going strong!
I just hope I never have to see "last post"
Here's to
I know it might hurt, but maybe everyone should give
... ok, maybe not
HallmarkOrnaments.Com
Now, that's good timing for a business.
Is anonymous coward any more anonymous than a made up /. name? Are more accountable than I am? Is there a stigma attached to posting as an AC ? I once had a formally registered /.er tell me that I sucked. (;@(
Now I know the reason behind the spelling mistakes.
Relax folks, it's only a five year old kid writing stories! :-D
More than mere navel gazing.
Only 5 Years old! That's too young to be any fun... Come back in 13 years when you're 18, legal, and ripe for the plucking... Then we'll talk.
Mmmm...Freshmeat!!. Oh wait, I'm thinking of somewhere else....
-Prof MD
Over 3 million servers stress tested.
Over 2 million servers successfully slashdotted.
Welcome to the home of the 1337 H4X0RS!
Slashdot doesn't archive -1 posts.
Slashdot has archived comments that had been moderated to -1 since the upgrade to Slashcode 2.x. In fact, the story about the 2.x upgrade is an example of an "archived" discussion with some extant -1 comments. So is Oracle Breakable After All, where more than half of the comments are -1 (due to The Post). It's true that -1 comments before the 2.x upgrade were discarded, but more than half the comments in Slashdot's database have been posted on 2.x. Not even the editors can change that.
Will I retire or break 10K?
What are 5-Year-Olds Like?
How I Move:
- I enjoy activities requiring hand skills.
- I draw a recognizable person.
- I am skilled and accurate with simple tools.
- I can sit still for brief periods.
- I enjoy jumping, running and skipping.
- I have adult-like posture in throwing and catching.
- I have great physical drive.
- I like dancing, am rhythmic and graceful.
- I sometimes roughhouse and fight.
- I am well coordinated.
How I Think:How I Get Along:
Crafted with love by a fellow slashdotter!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
The geek population is becoming extinct due to the lack of sex in the last 5 years.
I am a meat popsicle.
I guess you guys didn't put a TimeStamp column in the DB table that represents your users. It would be quite interesting (if you're sad like me) to see a bar chart of new users per month since inception. It would probably also give a good suggestion as to when you went live properly.
that's the stupidest phrase i've ever heard. it's so corny i can taste the butter from here.
54 is the lowest I have seen. Maybe I should look more. As a permanent AC I will never know the glory of having such a low number, but what happens to old account numbers? Are they retired? Can a number be reborn or does it just die a death of neglect?
In fact, I wrote a short rant the other night (literally) in my journal about almost this very subject.
Although my posting goes through short intermittent spurts, I still read slashdot quite frequently, scanning it for anything which piques my interest.
The other amazing thing about slashdot is all the clone sites it appears to have influenced. To all you people who compain about slashdot, or its editorial style, I'm sure you can find some little site inspired by slashdot which you actually will like. I think that's a pretty impressive legacy.
---
"Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong." --Dennis Miller
To everyone who has helped run Slashdot: congratulations for five years of often thought-provoking reading.
Though of course your site has a pro-Linux/OpenBSD/FreeBSD stance (which of course means it's antagonistic towards Microsoft), you have to admit other articles on other aspects of technology posted on this website have made for interesting reading, especially the innumerable commentaries posted by various readers of this web page. It is all the more amazing considering that your site is probably one of the longest-lasting web sites on the Internet not related to a business enterprise.
I salute Slashdot for five years of great work, and have best wishes for many more years of success.
/me wanders off to calculate hours lost to browsing /.
it only goes back to Dec 20, 1997
s lashdot.org/
http://web.archive.org/web/19971221012817/http://
- what is the definition of simultanagnosia?! I've been meaning to look it up!
I've spent far too much time here for my own good, but I've enjoy pretty much all of it. Thanks for a great site. Keep up the good job.
[Science] is one of the very few things that raises human life a little above farce and gives it the grace of tragedy.
Some how I missed the Steven King thing. I think I was going through a reading at +3 phase to see what that was like. I only started seeing the Steven King comments much later on when everyman and his dog was adding a line to their comment about it (it faded out much more quickly than the Beowolf Cluster crap though). Tell me, what was that all about?
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I'm with slashdot from the beginning and I always wished there would be something like /. on a CD. Something that let's me read thru the old stuff while sitting in the train.... ... ;0)
Please
--tf
Now if we assume there are 7 working hours in a day. That means that if you're working on nothing else then you'll have rejected 420 news articles during that time.
So my question is, do you actually get 420+ news articles a day? If not, what on earth do you do with the rest of your time?
(Granted the odd article for NewsForge, but, is that it?)
Avantslash - View Slashdot cleanly on your mobile phone.
Happy birthday /. !
Now cut the cake!!!!!!!
The sum of our knowledge today becomes the reference point of our ignorance tomorrow.
Well, just want to say Happy 5 years! /. every day. If I don't read it one day, I fell strange, disconected and down. /. team for this
I always read
So, I also want to say thanks you!
excelent site! It Rocks!
Greetings from Paraguay, the country where 64kbps
cost 100$
Get my e-mail after a captcha test in: http://tinymailt
even most english speaking people have NO idea what that term means. So you are not alone.
I haven't been here since the start, I came here back in 2000 I think. One of my favorite sites on the internet.
Will work for bandwidth
First mention of slashdot in usenet 1997/11/18:
;) Seriously though. Often when I complain about a NT4.0 "feature" I get
told "just wait 5.0 will have that fixed and more..." but I guess MS is
falling behind...
"I just saw at www.slashdot.org (an intersting news site) that it was announced at Comdex that Windows NT 5.0 won't be shipping until 1999. I find that sort of amusing. Linux will probably be at revision 3.0 by then
Vince"
Link!
- what is the definition of simultanagnosia?! I've been meaning to look it up!
<joke>I seem to remember a post about a year ago about a slashdot birthday! When will the double posts end?!</joke>
Congrats. You've outlasted @home, pets.com, and many others. Not as outstanding an accomplishment as that might seem, given their idiocy and hubris, but commendable. A good time for reflection and speculation.
Here's looking forward to five more years of:
1. Trolls: enough said.
2. First post: enough said.
3. Stories run over and over: even if it is not the same "news" item, I know I can look forward to endless stories like "Linux made to run on Potato Clock!" and articles disparaging anything Microsoft, such as "Windows instumental in kidnapping of Lindbergh baby!" I'd post links to the websites, but they'd surely get slashdotted.
4. Techno-lefty anticapitalism whining: "Whhaaaaa!!! I don't like patents ro copyrights!!!! Intellectual property is just a construct of the bourgeosie to keep the man down!!!! I want my warez!!!"
5. Anti-corporate whining: "Whhaaaaaa!!! My company just canned me and sent my job to India!!!" or "That darn RIAA wants to make money from the intellectual property it owns!!! It's so, like, unfair that I have to pay for intellectual property. It should, like, be free or something! Why can't I just steal it and spend the money from my pets.com stock on something else I want?"
6. Anti-Republican whining: "That Ashcroft! He's a white devil! I just know he sodomizes babies after he's done handling snakes for that kooky religious cult he belongs to! He's surely being paid off by big corporate money to put his jack-boot on the neck of the little guys just trying to steal music!" or "That Bush! He's not really the President, you know, he like stole the election or something! All those Republicans are thieves or crooks, I just know it! I read it right here in "Lingusitic Analysis of the Lies and Deviltry of that Moron, George W. Bush" by Noam Chomsky."
7. Whining: "I submitted this article already, but it was rejected!" and "moderation is so, like, unfair and stuff!" and "meta-moderation is so, like, even more unfair and stuff!"
8. Time wasting: see my entire worthless post.
9. Misinformation: "All Republicans are crooks" and "Microsoft is seeking to enslave society".
10. Religious wars: "BSD is dead!" "Nu-uh!" "Is too!" "OS X is BSD, so it's not dead, it's stronger than ever!" "No, OS X is not really BSD, is a BSD-like operating systems with some passing similarities to BSD. It's more like Apple/BSD."
and
"Linux is wayyyyy cooler than NT/2000/XP" "Wait, that should be GNU/linux" "No, It's GNU/Linux" "Well my buddy just calls it Debian" "He must be an apostate or a prostate or prostrate or something...I just read it in the GNU fax on GNU/Linux: 5.2.1(a) subsection 4.33, to wit: "Thou shalt pull from the Holy Hand Grenade one pin and thou shalt count to three, no more and no less, but three, and then thou shalt cast the Holy Hand Grenade at the apostate who referreth to GNU/Linux or its messiah, Richard M. Stallman by any sacreligious name differing from that of the sacred name GNU/Linux and GNU/Christ respectively. Upon the combustion and explosion of the Holy Hand Grenande on or about the person of the apostate, the apostate shall be therefore and henceforth cleansed of all commercial software sin and shall rise again on the third day with the blessing of the GNU/Christ, our savior."
11. Natalie [Portman] Hershlag's tits: Really guys, they aren't all that great anyway. I've seen fuller and more shapely optical mice.
I'm sure that there's more, but I'm already somewhat sick to my stomach. I have work to do, too.
guac-foo or guac-fu or script-fu or something
Lots of petrified grits
Are the ads and subscriptions covering the cost?
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Could somebody on /. insert dates into the article header??? It seems like such a simple thing. Give me a date. dammit.
My only main quibble with Slashdot is why aren't YEARS SHOWN ON STORIES!?
It's great seeing 'October 01'.. but what year is that? Why do Slashdot stories not display the year? It's a pain in the ass when you search for an old story, but all you get is the date and not the year.
Am I the only one who noticed this yet?
mogorific carpentry experiments
That Anonymous Cowards like myself will be forgotten. Left on a table like an old MickieD hamburger wrapper to suffer the indignities of being put in the trash. WHY!!!
I've been around since late August '98, and I have to say that ./ hasn't changed one bit. This especially directed towards those who have some sort of brain-damaged view that ./ was at some point a paragon of tech news reporting. But alas, it's the same ichor and vitriol filled shouting match that it's always been; and I wouldn't have it any other way :)
Happy B'day Slashdot!
http colon slash slash slash dot dot org. har.
Colin
No, that's Shel Silverstein.
I would attribute it as such, but there's not enough space in a Slashdot sig.
Gee, Slashdot's membership has certainly grown since I joined...It's been a great ride, and I hope it continues for a long time! Thanx for all the work over the years!
ttyl
Farrell
CAN-CON 2019 - Ottawa's only book oriented Science Fiction Convention! October 18-20, Sheraton Hotel, Ottawa, Canada h
There should be a Slashdot poll in the manner of those after-sales questionnaires: 'how did you find out about Slashdot?'.
:-P). That was following a link from the Wine newsgroup.
Myself, I started reading after Netscape's announcement that Navigator would be free software (five years later, and they still haven't shipped a version that runs fast enough to use
I'd be particularly interested in the split between those who were inducted into Slashdot by their friends or colleagues ('JOIN USSS...') and those who just found the site browsing the web. And of that latter group, how many followed explicit links and how many came from search engines?
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
As you can see from my user id number, I've been around here for a while. And I didn't even get an account for a while... Anyone with a lower id still around? What do *you* remember from 5 years ago?
/, as root" (or similar destructive advice)?
Reminiscing for a minute: Remember when...
* the Enlightenment window manager was still using DR (development release) in the versions?
* having to download 50 different graphics libraries to install Enlightenment?
* the first time someone told you to run "ldconfig -v" ?
* the first time someone told you to run "rm -rf
* a time before GNOME vs. KDE, because there was neither?
* you were the only kid on your block (in your school, at your job) who knew what an mp3 was?
* big companies announcing Linux support was a big deal?
* when XFree86 supported about 10 video cards?
What else?
How's my programming? Call 1-800-DEV-NULL
I don't remember when I registered, but I think it was this same year, or the previous O:-) Anyway, I knew /. since a few years ago, because of a friend of mine. I remember him sticking a Hemos and Taco picture in our LUG's HQ, and it was something like:
- (me) Who's that?+ (him) Rob Malda
- Who?
+ Rob Malda, the one from Slashdot
- Slashwhat?
And a couple years after, IIRC, there it came Barrapunto, the spanish /. cousin. And then everyone started to put "weblogs" online, and we all were going to do great things with Linux, and it was going to rule the world, and ...
<depressive>Sigh. I remember that those years I was hoping for the "good years" to come. And now I realize that those were the good years.
</depressive>Anyway, congrats /. Keep up the good work.
My weblog in spanish
happy birthday! congrats! this site isnt what it used to be but i still enjoy it. thanks and keep up the good work.
cwells
http://www.biker-needs-a-harley.org/
Linux is still on version 2.4 you illiterate moron.
Yea i remember some time around 97 someone telling me about slashdot. ' dude its a site dedicated to geeks like us' i was hooked from day one. keep up the good work
What the life of a troll (anonymous coward) is like?
How does an anonymous coward find his old posts?
-
Well being an AC has its ups and downs. I don't have to remember yet ANOTHER password for yet another system. Yes I can post what I want with impunity but to have any style at this job you have to act like a Real person and that means do not get personal. I have to tell you that in only about 5 months I have become a regular on this site and quite enjoy the rapport of talking online with my fellow geeks. Really. Posting anonymously is quite wonderful. As long as it is not abused it is vital to free speech on the internet.
Ok, what the heck does "Jump the shark" mean?
A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over. -Benjamin Franklin
"Slashdot.org, an online Mecca for geek-terrorist-hacker-wannabes and open source, bomb-making, Linux-loving losers, celebrates it's five anniversary today --- and yes, that's five as in PENTAGON and PENTAGRAM!!! You may also note that today's date, 10-1, if mathematically analyzed as 10 minus 1, or 9, and then 10 plus 1, or 11, is symbolically "9-11" in a perverse cyber-like way. So after assessing the potential threat of government website defacement, script-kiddies attacks, and---I believe they call it---'slashdotting' in celebration of this anarchist holiday, I urge all Americans across America to wake up and smell the terror, people!"
yerricde, why have you been so trollish lately?
For one thing, "troll" and "truth" both have the same first letters and the same number of letters: five. The same number of years Slashdot has been up. The same number that appears in Kuro5hin's name.
And you don't even *seem* to have a K5 account.
In fact, I do; it's just not under my usual nicks on Slashcode sites ("yerricde" or "tepples"). Anybody with knowledge of fairy tales in the Spanish language could figure out my K5 nick given the domain of my web site.
Will I retire or break 10K?
I am not joking. Plus I resent the fact that you are burning up my virtual Karma.
Ahh I remember it well.
Linux World NYC, a bunch of fat guys answering questions on a Jabba The Hut set. Me wandering over to FreeBSD and seeing the BSD Grrls in red latex. Me posting rants about the FreeBSD grrls in red latex. Getting modded up for my:
LaTex it's not just for text processing anymore
post.
But what I want to know is:
How many first posts?
How many Beowulf Clusters?
How many hot grits down Natalie Portman's pants?
How many polls w/o CowboyNeal?
How many karma points do I really have?
This
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perl -e'$\=" ";print ((qw/happy birthday to you , dear slashdot.../,$/)[$_])for(7,0..4,7,0..4,7,0..1,4..
DOS:7 ,0..3,7)"
perl -e"$\=' ';print ((qw/happy birthday to you , dear slashdot.../,$/)[$_])for(7,0..4,7,0..4,7,0..1,4..
Next verse of "How old are you now?..." coming in version 2.0. See stores for details
TDN - toolshed.down.net
ToolShed.Down.Net, its the #1 fan site for the band TOOL, and its been around for 7 years, and I don't even think its ad supported.
-Vic
the site in question seems to be heavily slashdotted, so here's a mirror:
Slashdot Turns 5
Posted by CmdrTaco on 09:00 AM October 1st, 2002
from the break-out-the-birthday-cake dept.
As much as I avoid discussing Slashdot on Slashdot, I figured I'd just take a moment to say that Slashdot is 5 years old now. I've written a Journal Entry with a few more comments on the subject. And yes we know we jumped the shark about a week after we registered the domain name, but we just don't care! Here's hoping we're here 5 years from now doing exactly the same thing with the same folks. (As a side note, due to a data importing bug, we really don't know exactly when we made our debut, but I spent september 97 putting the site together... and when we went live, we didn't even have comments for the first week or so!)
Because my son happens to be born that same day.
Happy 5th birthday to Slashdot and Tanguy.
A damn shame because if Pets could it might raise the level of debate.
OK,
- B
http://www.bradheintz.com/
- updated
should enter their own little mark on this anniversary...
This one is mine...
I stick to walls...
My site poetrycontestonline.com has been around in some incarnation since early 1996 (under a geocities domain though until around 1998). There are many many small sites that have been around forever.
I think a better question would be, "how many sites that get tons of traffic and that aren't run by huge corporations have been around that long?".
It's trivial to keep a page up that gets 1000 hits a week. One that gets 100,000 hits a day is a little more challenging.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
You're on cheap crack if you think slashdot or any site is "ad-supported". Ad revenues are almost entirely for VA's own products, making slashdot itself a very expensive ad. What ad revenue they do get probably doesn't even cover slashdot's bandwidth bill, let alone pay Taco and Hemos's salaries.
"Here's hoping we're here 5 years from now doing exactly the same thing with the same folks."
We'll accuse you of a repost of old news then, too.
That's Red Hat 8.0 not Linux itself.
Nice Troll though.
I say we take off and nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...
Let's see... pin eight... spanish for "eight" is "ocho"... fairy tales... "Pinocho" spanish for Pinocchio... You're not talking about pin0cchio, are you? Some of the Bono Act stuff he spews matches the Bono Act stuff you spew.
"Here's hoping we're here 5 years from now doing exactly the same thing with the same folks"
/.!
YES! Another 5 years of bad spelling and duplicate stories. Long live
The world moves for love. It kneels before it in awe.
I looked around and only found this as the oldest story on the site.
Dec, 31 1997
Sig
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars
Since Slashdot has been around for years, and the stories are archived for years, isn't it about time to actually display the year in the dateline of the story?
This story already says "Tuesday October 01, @09:00AM" -- if we're spelling out the day of the week and the month, surely we can afford a few extra characters to identify the year for posterity? "Tuesday October 01, 2002, @09:00AM" isn't that much longer, after all...
(As an aside, it also looks a little odd to pad the day of the month with a leading zero when words are spelled out in full...)
Deven
"Simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible." - Alan Kay
Happy fucken birthday!!! Good job guys.
Thanks, Steve
low moment in the history of /. But it was a turning point for me in my new crusade against the cult of scientology. Thank you slashdot. Maybe I will have to just paraphrase the crap from Co$ instead of posting complete sections. I ask you though. How do we protect the naive and innocent from the scourge of Scientology.
I thought goatse.cx was a linux site, so I tried to look at it at work. IT is going to check the logs anyday now. You bastards.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
Beowolf-jabber-based-dotGNU/Linux-based cluster of /.'s?
This link provides you with an dropdown of alternate ways of displaying a date. Enjoy!
Stop the brainwash
For old time's sake, I shall now recall one of Slashdot's very first trolls:
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPT !!!
Oh, Glorious Meept, where in bloody hell are you?
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
... when, exactly, it was that the phrase "jumped the shark" jumped the shark.
I know I don't join in as many discussions as I probably should but I would like to say thanks to all those at /. for helping be a part of a movement that has continued growth and success.
Don't feel bad because its cheesy. You know you like the warm fuzzies too.
You are the third person to ask this question and it just so happens that the 2 people posted about the same question at EXACTLY the same time.
Of course, it's big news when /. turns five, but When google turned four the other day did you see anything about it on slashdot? Probably not, because all of the stories submitted for Goggle's B-Day were mysteriously rejected. Now, be honest, who do you think has given more to the online and open source communities, slashdot.org(and banner ads) or google.com(and /linux)?
/. editors (what little karma I have be damned):
Oh well, maybe next year when they turn five they'll be worthy....
</rant>
Oh and just for the
HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY GOOGLE!!!!
I might download the RedHat ISOs later this week. What is the URL for the WinXP ISO again? I seem to have forgotten.
(Yes, I bit. It's a boring afternoon over here).
Yahoo?
KMSMA (WWBD?)
Once again, you didnt make any difference between "free as in beer" and "free as in speech" ! There is no problem in selling free software, at whatever price you want !
Besides that, you can always download RedHat (and all other distro) from the net !
Stop saying "JUMPED THE SHARK"!! It appeared in an article about 4 months ago and now everyone is using it because it makes them feel smart. FUCKING STOP IT!! IT'S A DUMB FUCKING PHRASE, IT'S REALLY FREAKING RETARDED!!
Perhaps it's time to Quit Slashdot.org Today! Excerpt: I have friends who were once tremendously productive programmers, until they started reading Slashdot. Then, the endless stream of links, updated a dozen times a day no less (so you don't go once a day to get your fix; instead, you keep a window open and hit reload every twenty minutes or so), steadily seduced them, until they eventually became babbling idiots, dribbling saliva from the corners of their mouths, ranting on the forums about the relative merits of Karma Whores and Anonymous Cowards.
Oh sure... it's not so unique any more but that's because you guys turned back all the code for the site to the community so there are Slashdot clones all over the place. When I first stumbled across /. it was truly unique. It was the first interactive site I found that gave Linux users a place to come to for news about an OS that back then was pretty much unheard of. And then, miracle of the Web, we could even add to the articles!!!
/. user. And I want Slashdot to know it. Happy birthday.
:)
"Unheard of in 1997?" you ask. Let me give you an example. In 1997 my daughter was a sophomore at the local community college. In a computer course she was given an assignment to write a report on an operating system that was not made by Microsoft.
Since I was her Dad... and I had used Linux since 1993, she wrote her report on Linux and I helped her. She did a great job but only received a B. The instructor wrote across her paper, "marked down because Linux is a nonexistent system". The instructor thought she had meant to write the report about Unix and got the name wrong!
So if we've been pushy here on our forum we have good reason. Even now the rest of the media pretty much doesn't understand the Linux movement. They don't understand the "support" issue (I suppose hiring competent people is too much to ask). They don't understand the technical issues (two MS programmers were once given credit for "inventing" symbolic links). And, they don't understand the social issues (we're a community, dammit!).
I am proud to be a Linux advocate and a
And thanks.
No one ever had to evacuate a city because the solar panels broke!
.. isn't it more than 5??
How long before the first goatse.cx appeared? (and when will they end, sigh...)
Satanists get good grades too...suspiciously good grades
wayback has a really old slashdot archived here. hey, guess what, on Dec 20 '97 (my birthday!) we were saying netscape sucks and IE is a little better. wow, not much changes in 5 years after all ;)
Satanists get good grades too...suspiciously good grades
I remember regularly visiting "rob malda's linux page" (or whatever it was called) for AfterStep mods and other similar things. Then Rob says, and I'm paraphrasing, "don't read my journal anymore, I got a news site up and running" ... Slashdot!
Considering how long I've been reading Slashdot, it really surprises me that it's been only 5 years. It really seems longer than that. I agree with CmdrTaco with the hope that this site doesn't change much in 5 years. Even the design of the site (remember the uproar over the grey backdrop in late 1997 ?? ouch!).
Thanks Rob and everyone else for the great site. I think this is a good time for me to go and drop another $20 to supporting Slashdot. Keep up the great work!
Here is an email I sent to Taco in 1998, when Slashdot was still privately held. How funny!
/.'s statistics of 300,000 page views /. is roughly three times /. paying for /. is actually *making* money, as /. went
>I don't know if you saw the following article, but EarthWeb recently
>IPO'd to the tune of almost $400 million dollars. Their draw? They
>have a web site that attracts technically-savvy viewers. The
>upshot? Because of their targeted audience they can charge a very
>high $68 CPM.
>
>Lessee... if we take
>yesterday, and multiply by $68/1000, we get $20,400. Multiplying
>that by 365 days in a year we get a lofty $7.4 million dollars.
>Compare that to EarthWeb's paltry $1.9 million for the first three
>quarters of 1998, and we estimate that
>bigger.
>
>Now, from a recent story we learned that not only is
>itself, it's allowing you to draw a salary and pay your rent as
>well. We can conclude that
>opposed to EarthWeb, which is losing money to the tune of roughly
>$7.5 million dollars a year.
>
>Taking all of this very scientific data into account, if
>public, one could expect the market capitalization to be greater
>than $1.2 billion (yes, that's billion) dollars.
>
>;-)
>
>-Pez
Congratulations. You've now discussed discussing Slashdot on Slashdot on Slashdot. In pointing this out I've discussed discussing discussing Slashdot on Slashdot on Slashdot on Slashdot, which means I've discussed discussing discussing discussing Slashdot on Slashdot on Slashdot on Slashdot on Slashdot, which implies that...
Stack overflow. Aborting...
the register
Maybe you live in interesting times
First Happy Birthday to all of you, those I like and those I don't like. Anyway, it's you have made it together and hope to see this team for some more years. Only hope that some of you over there would be more careful on the quality of the posts...
/. is not comemorating it? Has CowBoyNeal go on holiday? Where's the Pool?
And now the remark. 5 years passed and the big huge feature of
Very funny. Speaking of which, were are all the other people with low user #'s?
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
Have you ever talked to a girl without giving your credit card number first?
Blue's News
/., but it's a pretty widely respected gaming news site.
It's not quite as popular as
As Blue's tagline says: "Established 1995. Over an eighth of a billion visitors since 1997."
AnandTech and Tom's Hardware are also up there.
Frankly, a lot of sites have been around since 1997. Find some non-university/corporate sites that have been around for 10 years with (relatively) high hit counts and it's more meaningful.
remember, don't let go of the rope.
Until I can create an account using LYNX I will remain an anonymous coward.
Better get back to work then.
End of line
On November 4, 1997.
First, nothing begins if not opening
The best way to get lots of material for debates is to read /. and the comments at -1. =P
/. at -1, but that's another thing altogether.
/., and please continue to be provocative!
Also, the best way to get lost is to read
Happy birthday
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
A year ago, even. They just changed the number. :
Emacs: for people who just never know when to
Cool... I have the same birthday as /.
tony
hard core geek-ware
I've got an emailed reply to one of my slashdot posts in January 1998, even though I don't have a user password email until September. I suspect September is just when Rob made permanent user accounts possible, so you may have been reading the site before then.
Also, I submitted this story and it was rejected! What gives!!!
Animation World Network has been continuously up since early 1996. http://www.awn.com/ . Very cool site.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Not til you were bought by Andover at least!
How come Slashdot birthday is on the same day as China's National Day?
*ponder*
According to their history page, Macintouch, est. its web presence in '94.
I don't do this for karma, I do it for cash. It's much better.
It is understandable why you might want to avoid the appearance of blowing your own horn, but perhaps a Slashdot meta-section might keep the myriad complaints about (moderation|metamoderation|karma|layout|...) from cluttering the other sections.
/. should as well.
Yes, I know Brand X has this, but perhaps
www.eFax.com are spammers
Thats GNU/Red Hat to you, buddy!
Yeah , Congratulations and salutations to all you guys and all the staff that kept it real through the years. Now I hope that you guys can find a way to make a lot of money.Maybe you already do! /. is the only site that I check >20 a day, at night and on weekends and (almost) always enjoy.
Anyway, even here on the shit-side of earth in South Africa,
Good stuff!
"I used to have that really cool,funny sig
Some interesting bits here:
o rg
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.slashdot.
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
My dad bought (did I say bought? Back then ICANN gave them out for free) screaming.com in '94 and put up his first website. Problem is, it's the same damn website.
Hollow words will burn and hollow men will burn.
I am a 2000 newbie, and in the 2 1/2 years I read slashdot I did not experience the hot "grits" and the "np petrified in stone (sic)" trolls. Can an old timer explain me ?
So what? It's a damn good suggestion. I have no idea why this problem was not fixed four years ago. What good is an archive if you don't know what the freakin' year is on the story you pull from the archives?
It's now 5:25, and I'm relaxing at home :p
I guess beeing fine puts /. close to the point where its time to enter 1st grade. Time to learn how to read, write and socially behave ... YUK :)
-- &&
612895 users. Thats some fast uptake...
Screaming Systems (SCREAMING-DOM)
27138 Langside Ave.
Canyon Country, CA 91351
US
Domain Name: SCREAMING.COM
Administrative Contact:
Messick, Tom (TM330)
tommessick@SCREAMING.COM
Screaming Systems
27138 Langside
Canyon Country, CA 91351
US
(999) 999-9999
I've reported your inaccurate telephone number to InterNIC. (This is, of course, grounds for termination of your domain name lease.)
Ok, I didn't. Blah.
That are not corporate sites, like Microsoft.com, etc
I'm talking...ad-supported.
Here's one that I'm a member of, that's been around since 1995, whose entire business exists completely on the internet, and who is largely supported not by banner ads, but by other sponsoring members like myself: iATN. (It's an automotive technicians network... head over there if you are looking for a smart automotive tech in your neck of the woods.)
>Boo! There's your "under 100"!
;-)
Bummer you were two UIDs too late, tho
[Sorry, Waldo, you just did not sign up soon enough to qualify as an "old timer" to me... grin...]
:) I figure anything under 10,000 is relatively old-timerish; again, a figure that carefully includes myself and few people that joined after me. :)
/.
*Laugh*
It's funny how we all set our own threshhold for such things, ensuring that wherever we set our cutoff, it includes us.
I must say that a distinct change over the years has been a loss of community. I no longer see the same names as often as I once did. I now irrationally rely on low UIDs to determine the relative merits of comment, as opposed to saying "hey, isn't that [Nate Fox | singularity | Zow | Noke]?" There's just too many names and too many comments. This is less of a complaint and more of a lament, I suppose, but I do miss that aspect of
-Waldo Jaquith
I'll admit it, I'm a fucking junkie. Got my uid sometime in 2000, and haven't been able to stay away since! Thanks guys for a fun site - despite all the problems, there's nothing else like it.
sulli
RTFJ.
Considering the internet (universe) has only been around for 33 years (see here for details), that would make slashdot something like 12 in human years.
Put another way, Slashdot has been around for 15% of the total time of the internet. What did people do before slashdot? Probably were a lot more involved in usenet news (before spam).
And what does that mean for the future of slashdot? Now that its highly saturated and ad driven, the pioneers will move on. Will it continue to be the hip, anti-corporate, nerd web site we know and love? Only time will tell. Congrats, slashdot, hope to see you in another 5 years
Internet time is like dog years: seven times faster than non-internet time, as they used to say in the rise and fall of the dot.comony.
shortly after his recent death, Stephen King announced that he is retiring as a writer.
Really.
I can't believe that after all these years of reading Slashdot, hanging here with my uber-low UID number. And I've made it all this time, managing to resist the temptation to post... Four and a half years without a single troll, flame, or even so much as a "me too!"
Wait a minute...
DOH!!
Jargon Dictionary
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Someone should make an archive of the top 10 most commented on slashdot stories.. That would be interesting...
And moster posters behave as if they were two!
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
Why is everybody ignoring me? Stop it! And slashdot really needs to drop the ads and go with donations. The hypocrisy is getting out of hand. And stop ignoring me. Reply, or mod. downmod upmod, whatever.
That explains why I did not notice the Slashdot rollout. I was busy becoming a first time parent. Can he get a free ;) lifetime subscription?
Happy Birthday to both!
Just so yall know, Pokey hit 400 comics last night
Don't worry d00d, it's available thru kazaa. Fsck the RIAA!
but there are still a hell of a lot o half arsed discussion sites out there that have a flat layout for comments
In an earlier life, when I was a DECcie we had a corporate network with maybe 100000 users and we had this groupware thingie called VAXnotes. Of course DEC couldn't sell it for shit, but it had a huge impact on the company internally.
The software was rather primitive. You installed it and created a conference on your box. The format went something like SLSHDT::COBOL for example, discussing the finer arts of Cobol. SLSHDT was the DECnet node, where it resided (limited to 6 chars, but those where the good ol' days).
Within the conference everybody could create an entry and after that it was just one flat stream of comments.
There where confererences for every product and every obscure piece of software which this company manufactured and produced. That was nifty, because if you had a Cobol question it wouldn't take an hour until somebody from Cobol engineering jumped in with a knowledgeable and comprehensive answer. But the most interesting part of the whole system where the EI (employee interest) conferences, which ranged from cats through tarrot over DEC issues (HUMANE::DIGITAL) up to Soapbox (damn! I can't even remember the node name...).
While it was primitive from a "layout" point of view I have never since experienced the power that a network can have on its participants. They where some really, really smart people bitching and flaming away, but sticking together whenever required. At one time we even pledged to get the best hated Soapbox contributor (Jamie, who was a very fat git, NOT!) to a boxbash in Bawston from Reading, UK.
It was also around that time (1993) when a really, really smart engineer (let's call him Dan K) mentioned something he was working on, something that would change the world, something so fucking (he didn't say fucking, since that was verboten) revolutionary it would blow us out of our socks. He couldn't really mention what it was, but it was later marketed under the term WWW.
Yep, it was a primitive form of discussion, but it didn't matter, not at all and it was one of the aspects in DECs culture, which made this company so great!
It saddens me until today, that one of the most important companies in computer history was sold off by a slick guy with a bad hairdo to some box-assembling marketing organisation in Texas.
ich bin der musikant
mit taschenrechner in der hand
kraftwerk
No wonder why it pulls tantrums from time to time!
can somebody please explain what "to jump the shark" means?
6 years ago, I patented this whole thing. Slashcode, perl-based internet discussion boards, and the dark greenish color in conjunction with grey black and white. And the word "slashdot" and "Cowboy Neal"
I'll see ya in court buddy!
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
Just this morning (GMT, I live in Europe) I created my first /. account! Though I've been reading /. occasionally for a few years now, I never needed an account till I got my DSL connection a few weeks ago. Then I started reading a lot of the articles and really felt the need for one...
So, when I turned on my computer this morning, the first thing I did was create an account and read the /. headlines. Then I checked my mail, did some other stuff and left my computer for a few hours of classes.
When I was back home I looked at /. again and couldn't believe my eyes: first story on the page "Slashdot Turns 5"! Coincidence? Devine intervention? Alien intervention? We'll probably never be able to tell... But anyway, I figured this is worth my 'First Post' :)
Any change I was the first one to get an account on the day /. exists five years? (I'll bet you can verify this in your logs) Any bonus/award/price for me 'cause of that?
Well, it doesn't really matter... keep up the good work. I'd like to be able to enjoy my account on /. for at least an other five years...
UID 5 appears to be the lowest non-admin UID issued. Even then, samzenpus hasn't posted anything, at least not within the last few years. UID 7, CLorox is the lowest UID that actively posts. I thought that I had a low UID, but these guys put me to shame!
something clever
By my calculations, Slashdot will be turning 33 In a few months.
Seriously, thanks for the waste of time. I mean that. My boss on the other hand...
Come on, "Baby Bells Deregulated" didn't really happen in the past 5 years, did it?!"
Slashdot is a must-read and you've been doing a great job. Many more years ahead ;)
*ive brussel*
Heh -- that's funny, I remember the first time that I saw one of your posts. My friend Mike Sokolowski has a band called "Soko" (notable because several members of Dave Matthews Band performed on their first album), and the first time I saw one of your posts, it took me several minutes to figure out that you were not, in fact, Mike. That would have been in early 1999, I think.
:)
Small world.
-Waldo Jaquith
One's right here, mostly being quiet. BTW, to get this number I was reading /. the day Rob turned on the user account system; it was a weekend day, as I recall, maybe Saturday or Sunday morning, and things were relatively slow. I reloaded the home page and there was a post from Rob about the userid system. So I hit the link and grabbed myself an account; I doubt the system had been operational more than a few minutes.
:-) That's what gave me the idea of putting it up for sale on eBay, but twenty bucks didn't seem enough.
The one "nice" thing about having the nick "bob" is all the PNRs(*) who appear to wish they had the same nick, or anyway cluelessly try to get it. For a while I was getting my password emailed to me maybe once or twice per month, so I always had a current copy in my mail if I happened to forget it
(*) Persons Named Robert
Who woulda thunk it...
POKE 36879,8
In the /. Bowl, we're all wide receivers.
hi, I like pancakes -.-- -.-- --..
This stuff is hilarious! A sample story from 1998:
IBM announces a 25 gigger
Hardware Posted by Hemos on Wednesday November 11, @10:11AM
from the why-i-could-put-3/4-my-cd-collection dept.
Booker writes "So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive? What would you use this for? 400+ hours of MP3s comes to mind... "
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And I picked the same alternative as you.
For a couple of years I lived the occasional lurker/AC life here. But I got tired of existing below the surface (and it smells pretty bad down there). So I joined, and since then, my working efficiency has dropped 30%, my wife left me, and my company went under. WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?
Anyway, Happy 5th Birthday to one of the most stimulating, aggravating, interesting, annoying, informative, uninformed, thought-provoking, thoughtless, passionate, lame, exciting, dull, energetic, chaotic, useful, time-wasting, superior, inferior, thoughtful ... sites on the 'net.
(Walks away and mutters to self "Must not waste time at Slashdot, must not waste time at Slashdot, must not waste time at Slashdot ...")
P.S. - It turns out that Google considers Slashdot a news site. Two days ago, Google's News section listed the Slashdot item on the Dragon Chip on it's dynamically generated main Sci/Tech page . Amusingly, the People's Daily item, upon which the whole Slashdot discussion was based, appeared below the Slashdot item.
Sigs are bad for your health.
Time to whip out the low UID # and say...
/.
Happy 5th bday
Congrats for sticking around this long Rob. Here's to many more 5 year milestones!
Matt
When will the authors cache story content on slashdot?
(* world ends *)One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
Link
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
What a coincidence. Happy birthday Stinkybum, daddy loves you. :)
POKE 36879,8
Oh, and you forgot the infamous Signal 11, founder of the Karma Whore movement. Too bad he retired.
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
congrats on five years. how many websites can say they've lived that long?
and I have to say (this will sound like ass kissing but I've got karma to spare) this is the only site I'm guaranteed to read every day, several times a day.
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I remember being directed to this site back in December of 1997, or January of 1997. I wondered why I should consider registering, so I didn't for a year.
I then decided to, why not, go for it. I signed on, promptly switched jobs, and lost the login and password (still have the login, I think).
I am not sure when I created this login ID. I remember, however, when the first post was original. I remember when a decent word processor was what was needed for linux to have prime time. I remember discussing that as an AC in the beginning. Word Perfect 7, I think.
Anyways. I have enjoyed the site. Thanks guys!
They stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution, to...protect me from the enemy, myself
Hey, this post was made a year ago. When are these wacky editors going to start reviewing their submissions
You can find the number of users with a binary search. We know that the number of users is between 600K and 700K, so we can just use a binary search using 600K as a lower bound and 700K as an upper bound. With a 100K sized search then I think you should be able to find the exact number of users with no more than 17 requests. NOT 600 thousand. 17.
Note to M1-ers: a curt but otherwise insightful message is not "Flamebait" or "Troll".
I have followed Slashdot from the very beginning and I have to say, it still sucks.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
Read this article...
On Jan 6, 1998, CmdrTaco wrote:
Perhaps the solution to Netscape's problem is more obvious then they may realize. If they GPLd their code and gave it out to the world, we would have a slew of powerful browsers developed by the same programmers that have brought us all those other great GPL apps. That would jump start the free browser universe and maybe people would focus on a single browser instead of dividing their time amongst so many other free browser projects. And since it is free, people may choose it instead of MS. Just a thought...
Just a thought, indeed... though I'm glad there's a diversity of free browser projects. Too bad Netscape waited so long; from here it's a long, uphill battle to regain ground.
I have no special gift, I am only passionately curious. --Albert Einstein
Two off the top of my head:
http://www.thehun.net
http://www.al4a.com/links.html
(After 5 or 6 years, I can types those URLs faster and with less thinking than I can type my own full name.)
This:"ed2k://|file|windows_xp_pro_corp_sp1_fr_-_by _-_gollum.iso|577093632|33776418f7688f4e393b753d24 7959e3|/"
Wow!
:O)
/. !
Congratulations!
Ironically, I just turned 38 today, too.
Oh, to be 5 years old again... *sigh*.
I think I will celebrate Slashdot's birthday instead.
Happy Birthday,
-SS "Teach the ignorant, care for the dumb, and punish the stupid."
Oh, and by the way, the story's from 1998, making it about 4 1/2 years old. Not bad.
Note to M1-ers: a curt but otherwise insightful message is not "Flamebait" or "Troll".
The oldest slashdot article I can find Dated: 1970.01.01 2:00
It's at the top, for chrissakes!
If not for /., TechTV's Screen Savers would actually have to do research.
heh heh
send pics too!
You don't really feel. ACs are just programmed to think that they do.
Actually in case you didn't notice, since people started coming to you, our response time has drastically decreased, because we no longer have to wade through hundreds of complaints about broken cup holders, hundreds of porn pop-ups, and broken services during maintenence downtimes scheduled for the last 6 months.
And we have more time for Quake
As proud user number 404, I'm glad to say I was there...
It's funny, just this morning (at 1pm) I was thinking of how cool SlashDot really is. I wake up in bed. What's the first thing I do? Take a whizz. What's the SECOND thing I do? Hop on SlashDot. Happy Birthday, everyone!! I don't post much, and have been reading Slashdot for only about 2 years, but you have brought the Internet and everyone that uses it an invaluble website that cannot be tarnished by corporations (besides the absolutely horrish MS ad I saw on one of the articles yesterday). The news is relevant, the news is to the point, and the news is interesting to us, the computer/science nerds of this age, in the year two-thousand and two. Congradulations, and I hope to see you at 50! (But definately not in person, Taco. =p)
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Do you think it would have been better to have stored the year each story and comment was posted? Or is it stored and just not shown?
I too have discovered a tool for removing economic scarcity...it's called a gun
The Springfield Fragfest turned 5 in April. Its peak only saw 200-700 pairs of eyeballs, and with the lack of updates lately it's about dead (and its archives have almost completely filled its server space).
Here's hoping slashdot continues to be as sucessful as my site isn't.
http://thefragfest.com
...and when they pulled the body...
...from the twisted...
...burning...
...wreck...
...it looked like -
- THIS!
MUHUHUHHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
"Together, we've been through 10 years; Met hundreds of weird people, been in countless situations...we've slept with...well, who's counting? and made millions, and millions of dollars...."
The Games Domain (www.gamesdomain.co.uk) was founded in April 1994 (see the access stats here) and is still going, albeit after a few changes in ownership (currently owned by our patent-happy friends at BT I believe)
The lowest ID I'd seen before you that's still active (and not on the /. staff) is the Proddy troll euroderf. You win by 3.
Really? I want my Suse iso. What's the URL?
Writers imply. Readers infer.
Here's the Google cache of the site ;).
SlashDot certainly acts it's age. :)
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
What is the ed2k: a protocol? Never seen that before.
Wow..5 years, I never knew that slashdot has been around that long. I would like to thank slashdot though. This site, and the stories, and comments was what gave me the guts( for lack of a better word) to install Linux and give it a shot. Ever since I have installed it, I have it loaded on every machine at my house except for one. My Gaming PC, thats it. The majority of work is done in Linux, and I love it. Thanks Slashdot. Have a happy birthday.
Once upon a time, I once I had a great Sig.....then I lost it.
anyone know what it is? cmon...i know someone does.
now all the postings are referbished garble from other news sites.
Bianca's has actually been around WAY longer. They've already had a 7th birthday party, 8th will be in February. I guess people always want to talk about sex.
Has it been five years? Damn. All the meept, Natalie Portman, First Posts, goat-ass, etc must have clouded the time. :-P
Well done Rob, Jeff and Nate, and the rest of you who joined on later. Here's to another five years!
Slainte!
Since '98 or '99 when I began looking for linux.
/. to be more cosmopolitan -- of course, it's not: it's an USA site, with all good and bad aspects this brings (mostly good ones, I add).
I'm still an AC, due primarily to my wish to remain "incognito" and not accumulating karma.
Your success is a problem, though... nowadays I almost never post, since I feel my writings will be lost amid an ocean of posters.
Also, I expected
Anyway, thank you all for a wonderful experience. You made my last 5 years very rich, amusing and interesting.
Keep on for the next 500 years!
Happy Birthday to slashdot!
I was always kinda proud when I got user ID #656 .. I wonder if there are any active users 100? :)
Happy Birthday /. !!
:) )
(Hope I won't lose my karma for posting this
SLASHDOT!
google for slashdot site:www.microsoft.com, second link is this.
See slashdot in light mode;
http://slashdot.org/index.pl?light=1
It helps lower Slashdot's bandwidth but still loads the top banner.
I remember when Slashdot was smaller. There were a lot more interesting comments. Then the kids came along with first posts, and hot grits. Slashdot just seems to go downhill. I find it bothersome that a site that hates Microsoft and preaches so much hate against them has ads for Visual Studio .NET I realize VA is in the crapper, and their stock is probably at its lowest, but it strikes me as hypocritical for Slashdot to have ads for Microsoft.
My 2 cents...
is low uid inversely proportional to cock size or something? i waited about a year to register an account, but who cares i usually post as anonymous coward, irregardless of what i believe the quality of my post to be. where's your sense of privacy in the info age?
i still read unfiltered too, though threading does make it more sensical. and if most miss this post since it starts at 0, who cares? fuck 'em if they cant a holistic, robust view of life, including those trolls out to waste time - they are also part of the beauty.
while we're on nostalgia, i miss a lot of the trolls. it seems like forever, or at least a couple hours, since i saw an actual goatse link, not to mention a penis bird or natalie portman/hot grits troll.
eDonkey2000, a p2p software. The link works at least on Windows with Internet Explorer.
That's GNU/buddy to you, GNU/Anonymous Coward!
Slashdot is such a great page been reading it for years but they are starting to piss me off with Microsfot .NET Advertisements... like i thought this was a ANTI Microsoft page.. like come on folks
When I was down and depressed, Slashdot was there for me. When my wife and kids had left me, Slashdot was there for me. When I recieved cancer from my CRT from reading too much Slashdot, Slashdot was there for me. When I was about to suicide due to too much Slashdot, Slashdot was there for me. Come to think of it, I think Slashdot actually caused all of these problems. I'm not sure if I should be thanking you guys...
Great work lads! Been reading every day for ~4 years now. Keep up the good work! Here's to another five!
-There is no
Hi darling,
You know, posting journal entries with comments disabled is really cruel. How can I express my feelings this way?
Anyway, why is MsGeek dead? Is it because of the low participation of the public, or related to the death of the WIPO Troll? If you remember, I posted ~2 comments there regarding girlfriend lookup..
Slashdot community, please notice: I am looking for a girlfriend.
Nave H. Weiss
I saw your journal entry, but I have to repond on it. I've got also a couple of lifeless trolls writing in my journal, but I don't care. They stay below threshhold 1.
So what if some trolls (namely J'raxis/WIPO/Anal Cox/Serial Troller/etc) hate you? It's not that by crapflooding they are wasting your disk space.
Slashdot community, please notice: I am looking for a girlfriend.
Nave H. Weiss
Can you tell me where the current Libranet is available?
Hmm, Mozilla doesn't like it.
I have been playing with MLDonkey, an EDonkey implementation on Linux. It is controlled using a web interface, I can access my home machine from work, to run searches and start downloads.
The homepage is here:
www.nongnu.org
Does MLDonkey accept text commands? If it does, you could try "dllink "
Let's hope for many more years of hot grits, BSD is dying, Natalie Portman naked and petrified, first post, goatse.cx, fecaljapan, Penis Bird, MEEPT!, my computar is teh broken, LUNIX SUCKS, 1337 and all the others...
Hmmm didn't see this anywhere on the site, didn't want to use my journal...and this thread seemed like a good a place as any
S LA S.html
here it is:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/14/technology/14
> No manual is ever necessary.
May I politely interject here: BULLSHIT. That's the biggest Apple lie of all!
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