Slashdot Mirror
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!)
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
Could somebody on /. insert dates into the article header??? It seems like such a simple thing. Give me a date. dammit.
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!!