Slashdot Turns 5

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 1, 2002 @01:00AM 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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fp by metatruk · 2002-10-01 01:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

First post from 802.11b
Sad news ... Stephen King dead at 55 by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 01:09 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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.
1. Re:Sad news ... Stephen King dead at 55 by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 01:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  I can't wait till he dies someday so you can be the first to break the news to /.
2. Re:Sad news ... Stephen King dead at 55 by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 01:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Of course, he'll be modded offtopic
Re:Happy birthday!!! by I'm+not+a+script · 2002-10-01 01:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I hope for your sake it's a troll and you're not
actually such a narrowminded loser.

--
kthx
Re:Happy birthday!!! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 01:16 · Score: -1, Offtopic

LOL!
your comment by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 01:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

and your sig
My First Account by waldoj · 2002-10-01 01:45 · Score: 2, Offtopic

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:How many? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 01:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

cough
Re:You guys are phonies by plugger · 2002-10-01 03:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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).
Re:You guys are phonies by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 03:11 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Afternoon? What the hell wrong wit' you, boy? It's still 11:00.
Re:You guys are phonies by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-01 03:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Well, I didn't think that was much of a troll, but the proof is in the bites. Keep on trolling.