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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. In case it gets slashdotted..... by z_gringo · · Score: 0, Redundant


    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 :) Good Pay (well, it used to be better, but that pesky stock market is just depressing) but most important is Interesting work- its just never dull around here (well, maybe during August :)

    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) ... but especially I'd like to thank the executive types who still let us work- Richard French is the man in charge of OSDN, and Ali Jenab is the man in charge of VA Software. They let us keep doing what we're doing, and have always trusted my instincts to do what is right for Slashdot. Without their willingness to let Slashdot be Slashdot, I promise you I wouldn't still be working here, and I know that the site you would be reading would be vastly different than the one you love (or love to hate).

    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.

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    -- -- Warning. Do not stare directly at the sun.
  2. Mirror? by Marcus+Aanerud · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Anyone have a mirror of the story's link? The server's been slashdotte..... no, wait.

  3. First Posting On the Wayback Machine (Correct) by MarkedMan · · Score: 2, Redundant

    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?