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Slashdot Turns 5

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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!)

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  1. Re:And Now... by dattaway · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the early days of slashdot, you had sometimes a few hours to get a first post. If it was early in the morning, you had to wait a while before everyone would wake up and the party would start. The first post back in those days was actually a funny joke. Nowdays its about as novel as crapflooding.

    Silly posts commenting on a funny article was the norm back in those days. Now its brutal competition among the pedantic keepers of wisdom and those who can google out gems of knowledge. Comments back then seem trollish today. But its still fun to see how much information thousands of people can pack into the comments section. Slashdot today is quite an impressive collection of concise facts following each article.

    Mispelled words and poor grammar are just tokens of nostolgia.