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!)

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My First Account

[waldoj]

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.

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 /. and when I would have made an account. Sometimes I think I've sleptwalked through entire years of my life.

-Waldo Jaquith

Re:You guys are phonies

[plugger]

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).