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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!)
You get comments almost immediately! First Post!
when we went live, we didn't even have comments for the first week or so!)
A whole week before a "First Post" appeared. Bliss.
I am a Karma Library.
They didn't buy a Super Bowl ad.
You've taken five years away from my life and I want them back now!
If not, the penguin gets it :P
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
That are not corporate sites, like Microsoft.com, etc
I'm talking...ad-supported.
Slashdot is the site I spent 90% on when I'm connected to the internet. It's the first thing I read every day.
Slashdot is a source of info, of pure fun and of substancial debates.
Congrats, Mista Taco!
{{.sig}}
now i can out geek all the geeks i know, by telling them i have the same birthday as slashdot.
woo-hoo.
(pretend there's something witty here)
Since theres an article about Slashdot on Slashdot, does that mean Slashdot is going to get Slashdotted?
On a related note, it would be interesting for someone to study the effects of /. on society, along the same lines as this story. I don't know about anyone else, but /. tends to be one of my greatest joys and frustrations all in one. The ability to voice your opinion in such an open manner can have a staggering effect, and I would be interested to see a study trying to quantify exactly what that effect is.
"Herbivores eat well cause their food never, ever runs."
Great effort, to have surivived so long.
Well done.
Alas gallinaceas de urbe bovis volo
How many registered users are there anyhow? Any count on active heads as well?
Sometimes, I feel like an old geezer having a user ID of 3264, when I see user IDs in the 6 digits range.
Five years of
- AYBABTU
- Can you imagine a beowolf cluster of these?
- Natalie Portman naked and petrified
- Hot grits (down your pants)
- First post!
- goatse.cx
- Page widening
- BSD is dying
- Author Stephen King dead at 54
Like I said, feels like more..."If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
"We've posted nearly 30,000 stories. Deleted a million submissions. Served half a billion pages." ..and brought thousands of servers worldwide to their knees.
Wonder who got the first First Post?
If you can't see the value in jet powered ants you should turn in your nerd card. - Dunbal (464142)
Hauling Down And Stomping Websites For Over 5 Years.
Every webmasters nightmare.
If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
I can't wait for someone to submit this story in a week and it gets posted again.
It's amazing to see how far we've come in such a short time. Five years ago we were all still using Linux 2.0, Microsoft was in court with Apple over the look and feel of Windows for Workgroups (well, some things never change, I guess), and Monica Lewinsky was in the papers every day (hey, not news for nerds, but we all live in real life, too...sometimes!).
/code and this site--there's nothing like it anywhere else on the web--and to the great community that makes /. so special. You guys are the best friends (and friends of friends!) a lone hacker could ask for, when he isn't debugging perl in vi!
Many of us slashdotters have grown as well. From humble beginnings to the dizzying heights of the dot.com boom to the unemployment line (and mom and dad's house again). But it gives us more time to hack on Free Software, so bring it on!
I'd just like to say "thanks" to Rob & the gang who put in long hours on
Here's to hoping the next half-decade is as good as the last. Cheers.
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
There. Better. Too much time in bash lately.
Any record of the first site to be slashdotted?
I am a Karma Library.
With one of the top stories on the same date five years ago featured again.
This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for higher security.
Here is the oldest archived one
Happy Birthday Slashdot!
Congrats! I sure hope that you last another 5 five years. But is the site profitable? Could it stand on its own? Could you guys buy it back if VA decides to shut it down?
Lasers Controlled Games!
Seeing as how it looks like everyone will have to get a post in on this story, I might as well join the club.
Just for old times sake, anyone still have that "History of the World According to Slashdot" post still floating around?
It hurts when I pee.
whe it went live.
when the first story that had >100 comments.
when the first troll appeared.
when the first post crap started.
when the hot grits appeared.
when we were blessed (should I use that word?) with goat-you-know-who..(ICK!)
when the fist bout of taco-bashing started..
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
about the Lone Gunman fiasco.
>
We've posted nearly 30,000 stories. Deleted a million submissions.
Wow, a 3% acceptance rate. Considering the signal to noise ratio in the discussion, that's pretty good!
But I'm glad to see Slashdot has matured since then. Now they realize that sometimes banning someone's netblock is just plain necessary when that person is posting non-factual information. If some innocent net neighbors are gagged for a few days, that's simply the price we pay for informational freedom. And deleting posts, while morally abhorrent, is the only way to keep ourselves from accidentally reading a 3 page long "taco snotting" FAQ.
Thank you, Slashdot, for making the trains run on time.
Just wondering how everyone heard about slashdot and got "hooked". I remember I first heard about it during my internship in the summer of '98. (So I guess that makes me a vetran slashdot reader). Anyway, a linux consultant geek came in and showed it to me. When/why/where did you first start reading slashdot?
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?
Other than some ridiculous mental imagery (jumping on sharks? eh? *shrug*) I have nothing with this metaphor/proverb/whatchamacallit. Please clue me in.
Why do you avoid discussing Slashdot on Slashdot? Are you afraid of getting Slashdotted?
That's Interesting, that corresponds with a slow drop in productivity of the Tech sector...
Hmmm
Technology is most abused by the very people it was created to help
Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door--that way Lumberg can't see me, heh--after that I sorta space out for an hour.
Yeah, I just read Slashdot, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
Thanks Slashdot! Happy B-Day from all the Peter Gibbon's in this world!
How about a series of links highlighting great moments in Slashdot history?
* The first "First Post"
* First Linux vs. Windows vs. Mac vs. vi vs. emacs flamewar
* First post lamenting broken business models
* First post by Wil Wheaton
* Posts removed by the Scientologists
* Jon Katz making sense in the pre-September 11 and pre-columbine world.
Any more suggestions?
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
...and of course, happy birthday slashdot! (yeah yeah, reply to myself, sorry... Can't believe I forgot to congratulate the dot)
is that you treasure your little four-dig. "Why... in my day..."
/. come on lines. Course my karma's excellent, baby. I ain't no troll. Now come here for a sec, you've gotta click here to log in.
It's this weird unspoken thing that low-digit users here are like elders. Their posts carry that little extra weight, like the withered old geek has just stood up at the town meeting, or something equally rediculous.
Anyway, if anyone needs me, I'll be in a bar, trying out my new
I think for keeping Taco gainfully employed she should buy us (each, not collectively, it is cold and flu season) a beer at the next /. meetup in Ann Arbor!
it's not going to stop until you wise up, no it's not going to stop. so just give up.
I started scanning /. about three years ago. I had just started with a new company, and no other company I had worked for previously allowed lowly employees like me internet access. With slow dial-up at home, this data pipe into my work computer was amazing.
/. through some mention in a Canadian magazine I had purchased at an airport. Now, I'm not techno-geek, but I'm also not a techno-phobe. Yes, I have Windows. But yes, I run Mozilla. I'm kind of "middle of the road" when it comes to computers.
/. to be at the very least interesting, and at the very most informative and entertaining. I've learned a lot about computers, programming and technology through this site. But I've also learned a lot about law, public opinion and other diverse topics.
/. posters, it's frequently the most stimulating thing I read all day.
/. and the /. community.
/., I've managed to use a lot of what I read to my advantage. frequently, my coworkers will come to me for problems instead of bothering with our slowwwwww IT dept!
I found
I've always found the content on
I may have missed the first two years, but I'll read for the next two to make up. Although I may not always agree with
Thanks,
SIDE NOTE -- because of
Well done, everyone -- well done.
Carousel is a lie!
I guess that makes /. a Libra. . .
How many years is that in Internet time?
I may be bad with names, but I'll never forget your IP address
we didn't even have comments for the first week or so!
Is this the 'Golden Age of Slashdot' that I hear so much about?
The opposite of progress is congress
And deleting posts, while morally abhorrent, is the only way to keep ourselves from accidentally reading a 3 page long "taco snotting" FAQ.
Slashdot generally does not delete comments. Among over 4 million comments posted after the moderation system began, fewer than a half-dozen have been deleted, mostly for flagrant copyright infringement. Other than that, you can get 99.999% of everything posted, even the trash, by reading at -1.
Will I retire or break 10K?
Here's a link to the site. Strange they didn't provide one in the article. Perhaps they're afraid it'll get Slashdotted?
++ Say to Elrond "Hello.".
Elrond says "No.". Elrond gives you some lunch.
due to a data importing bug, we really don't know exactly when we made our debut,
You mean you didn't backup your database before you did your import ??? And what kind of import could ruin the imported data, anyways ??
Note to self: never take sysadmin'ing advice from Taco.
The first usenet posting (or at least the first i could find) that mentions slashdot seems to be this one dated Nov. 11 - 1997. That seems to be fairly soon after the release IMO.
Incompetence Floats
Early slashdot is just as valuable as early usenet, and I think we need to find a way to make it accessible. Isn't there some NNTP gateway code somewhere? Could slashdot export month-old stories for google groups to pick up? I bet the google guys would even help develop a new protocol if necessary.
Most valuable of all would be to establish a mechanism that other web discussion boards could use, and encourage them to make their archives available. Imagine the power of all your favorite weblogs searchable through one interface. This would be a boon for users and net historians alike.
The evaluation of an action as 'practical' . . . depends on what it is that one wishes to practice.
Who else remembers the days of Chips n Dips? :-)
/. readers, I have to say it's been incredible watching this site grow into what it has become. Congratulations Taco and the rest of the crew; you have not only created a wonderful destination for nerds interested in stuff that matters, but you have also at least in some part created an entire genre of sites. For this, we all thank you.
As one of the first
Back when I was running Red Hat 4.2. I have 1300 comments (this is 1301). 1300. At approx 1 to 2 minutes per comment that's 20 to 40 hours spent commenting on slashdot. Shit. I want that day back!
Best Slashdot Co
Thanks goes to the people that puts a golden lining on the internet! Slashdot is the best site in the world for techies that wants to know.
/. and envy it?
I wonder just how much Microsoft admires
HTTP/1.1 400
Funny how this appeared just above the "what is the net doing to you" article. That is some perverse synchronicity.
I don't even remember my first post or when exactly it was I first registered. I used to think having a UID above 10,000 made me a Jonny come lately. Now I'm like the girzzled old man that shoos little kids off his front lawn. Maybe from now on I'll use a hose instead of my cane.
Windows still sucks, Linux is still in beta, AMD makes chips worth buying, 3Dfx is no more, AOL is spelled EVIL, Apple is cool again, Be is no longer cool (sorry OpenBeOS guys), Netscape is abbriviated EVIL, Internet Explorer still sucks, Lord of the Rings was finally made into a movie, The Phantom Menace blew goats, Natalie Portman is still hot despite her lack of petrification, apparently all my base are belong to someone, the internet is now aplace where evil cool people hang out, being a geek still gets you beat up, slashdot has advertisements, Rob STILL doesn't acknowlege story submitters and user comments as being important in the slightest to the popularity of slashdot, Stephen King has died several times at various ages, and even I have imagined a Beowulf cluster of naked and petrified Natalie Portmans pouring hot grits down my pants.
It's been a strange five years. If I didn't like the ride can I get a refund?
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
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.
/. and when I would have made an account. Sometimes I think I've sleptwalked through entire years of my life.
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
-Waldo Jaquith
Now, that's good timing for a business.
Over 3 million servers stress tested.
Over 2 million servers successfully slashdotted.
Welcome to the home of the 1337 H4X0RS!
Slashdot doesn't archive -1 posts.
Slashdot has archived comments that had been moderated to -1 since the upgrade to Slashcode 2.x. In fact, the story about the 2.x upgrade is an example of an "archived" discussion with some extant -1 comments. So is Oracle Breakable After All, where more than half of the comments are -1 (due to The Post). It's true that -1 comments before the 2.x upgrade were discarded, but more than half the comments in Slashdot's database have been posted on 2.x. Not even the editors can change that.
Will I retire or break 10K?
What are 5-Year-Olds Like?
How I Move:
- I enjoy activities requiring hand skills.
- I draw a recognizable person.
- I am skilled and accurate with simple tools.
- I can sit still for brief periods.
- I enjoy jumping, running and skipping.
- I have adult-like posture in throwing and catching.
- I have great physical drive.
- I like dancing, am rhythmic and graceful.
- I sometimes roughhouse and fight.
- I am well coordinated.
How I Think:How I Get Along:
Crafted with love by a fellow slashdotter!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
It means something like 'when we started to go downhill', as in get worse.
Think of your favorite TV show, and when it was getting boring... And presto! Something happens, like somebody dies or a "special" story line is run. It's generally a sign that whatever it is you're doing has just past its use by date.
I don't know exactly where the expression came from - somebody once said it was to do with Happy Days (the tv show), where the Fonz jujmped over a bunch of sharks, and the show was never quite as good afterwards. I'm not sure if that's true though.
Alas gallinaceas de urbe bovis volo
In fact, I wrote a short rant the other night (literally) in my journal about almost this very subject.
Although my posting goes through short intermittent spurts, I still read slashdot quite frequently, scanning it for anything which piques my interest.
The other amazing thing about slashdot is all the clone sites it appears to have influenced. To all you people who compain about slashdot, or its editorial style, I'm sure you can find some little site inspired by slashdot which you actually will like. I think that's a pretty impressive legacy.
---
"Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong." --Dennis Miller
To everyone who has helped run Slashdot: congratulations for five years of often thought-provoking reading.
Though of course your site has a pro-Linux/OpenBSD/FreeBSD stance (which of course means it's antagonistic towards Microsoft), you have to admit other articles on other aspects of technology posted on this website have made for interesting reading, especially the innumerable commentaries posted by various readers of this web page. It is all the more amazing considering that your site is probably one of the longest-lasting web sites on the Internet not related to a business enterprise.
I salute Slashdot for five years of great work, and have best wishes for many more years of success.
I've spent far too much time here for my own good, but I've enjoy pretty much all of it. Thanks for a great site. Keep up the good job.
[Science] is one of the very few things that raises human life a little above farce and gives it the grace of tragedy.
Now if we assume there are 7 working hours in a day. That means that if you're working on nothing else then you'll have rejected 420 news articles during that time.
So my question is, do you actually get 420+ news articles a day? If not, what on earth do you do with the rest of your time?
(Granted the odd article for NewsForge, but, is that it?)
Avantslash - View Slashdot cleanly on your mobile phone.
I haven't been here since the start, I came here back in 2000 I think. One of my favorite sites on the internet.
Will work for bandwidth
<joke>I seem to remember a post about a year ago about a slashdot birthday! When will the double posts end?!</joke>
Are the ads and subscriptions covering the cost?
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
My only main quibble with Slashdot is why aren't YEARS SHOWN ON STORIES!?
It's great seeing 'October 01'.. but what year is that? Why do Slashdot stories not display the year? It's a pain in the ass when you search for an old story, but all you get is the date and not the year.
Am I the only one who noticed this yet?
mogorific carpentry experiments
No, that's Shel Silverstein.
I would attribute it as such, but there's not enough space in a Slashdot sig.
Gee, Slashdot's membership has certainly grown since I joined...It's been a great ride, and I hope it continues for a long time! Thanx for all the work over the years!
ttyl
Farrell
CAN-CON 2019 - Ottawa's only book oriented Science Fiction Convention! October 18-20, Sheraton Hotel, Ottawa, Canada h
There should be a Slashdot poll in the manner of those after-sales questionnaires: 'how did you find out about Slashdot?'.
:-P). That was following a link from the Wine newsgroup.
Myself, I started reading after Netscape's announcement that Navigator would be free software (five years later, and they still haven't shipped a version that runs fast enough to use
I'd be particularly interested in the split between those who were inducted into Slashdot by their friends or colleagues ('JOIN USSS...') and those who just found the site browsing the web. And of that latter group, how many followed explicit links and how many came from search engines?
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
As you can see from my user id number, I've been around here for a while. And I didn't even get an account for a while... Anyone with a lower id still around? What do *you* remember from 5 years ago?
/, as root" (or similar destructive advice)?
Reminiscing for a minute: Remember when...
* the Enlightenment window manager was still using DR (development release) in the versions?
* having to download 50 different graphics libraries to install Enlightenment?
* the first time someone told you to run "ldconfig -v" ?
* the first time someone told you to run "rm -rf
* a time before GNOME vs. KDE, because there was neither?
* you were the only kid on your block (in your school, at your job) who knew what an mp3 was?
* big companies announcing Linux support was a big deal?
* when XFree86 supported about 10 video cards?
What else?
How's my programming? Call 1-800-DEV-NULL
Ahh I remember it well.
Linux World NYC, a bunch of fat guys answering questions on a Jabba The Hut set. Me wandering over to FreeBSD and seeing the BSD Grrls in red latex. Me posting rants about the FreeBSD grrls in red latex. Getting modded up for my:
LaTex it's not just for text processing anymore
post.
But what I want to know is:
How many first posts?
How many Beowulf Clusters?
How many hot grits down Natalie Portman's pants?
How many polls w/o CowboyNeal?
How many karma points do I really have?
This
go to www.jumptheshark.com
This
perl -e'$\=" ";print ((qw/happy birthday to you , dear slashdot.../,$/)[$_])for(7,0..4,7,0..4,7,0..1,4..
DOS:7 ,0..3,7)"
perl -e"$\=' ';print ((qw/happy birthday to you , dear slashdot.../,$/)[$_])for(7,0..4,7,0..4,7,0..1,4..
Next verse of "How old are you now?..." coming in version 2.0. See stores for details
TDN - toolshed.down.net
ToolShed.Down.Net, its the #1 fan site for the band TOOL, and its been around for 7 years, and I don't even think its ad supported.
-Vic
the site in question seems to be heavily slashdotted, so here's a mirror:
Slashdot Turns 5
Posted by CmdrTaco on 09:00 AM October 1st, 2002
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!)
OK,
- B
http://www.bradheintz.com/
- updated
"Here's hoping we're here 5 years from now doing exactly the same thing with the same folks."
We'll accuse you of a repost of old news then, too.
"Here's hoping we're here 5 years from now doing exactly the same thing with the same folks"
/.!
YES! Another 5 years of bad spelling and duplicate stories. Long live
The world moves for love. It kneels before it in awe.
Since Slashdot has been around for years, and the stories are archived for years, isn't it about time to actually display the year in the dateline of the story?
This story already says "Tuesday October 01, @09:00AM" -- if we're spelling out the day of the week and the month, surely we can afford a few extra characters to identify the year for posterity? "Tuesday October 01, 2002, @09:00AM" isn't that much longer, after all...
(As an aside, it also looks a little odd to pad the day of the month with a leading zero when words are spelled out in full...)
Deven
"Simple things should be simple, and complex things should be possible." - Alan Kay
This link provides you with an dropdown of alternate ways of displaying a date. Enjoy!
Stop the brainwash
For old time's sake, I shall now recall one of Slashdot's very first trolls:
MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPT !!!
Oh, Glorious Meept, where in bloody hell are you?
In Soviet Russia, Jesus asks: "What Would You Do?"
Perhaps it's time to Quit Slashdot.org Today! Excerpt: I have friends who were once tremendously productive programmers, until they started reading Slashdot. Then, the endless stream of links, updated a dozen times a day no less (so you don't go once a day to get your fix; instead, you keep a window open and hit reload every twenty minutes or so), steadily seduced them, until they eventually became babbling idiots, dribbling saliva from the corners of their mouths, ranting on the forums about the relative merits of Karma Whores and Anonymous Cowards.
Oh sure... it's not so unique any more but that's because you guys turned back all the code for the site to the community so there are Slashdot clones all over the place. When I first stumbled across /. it was truly unique. It was the first interactive site I found that gave Linux users a place to come to for news about an OS that back then was pretty much unheard of. And then, miracle of the Web, we could even add to the articles!!!
/. user. And I want Slashdot to know it. Happy birthday.
:)
"Unheard of in 1997?" you ask. Let me give you an example. In 1997 my daughter was a sophomore at the local community college. In a computer course she was given an assignment to write a report on an operating system that was not made by Microsoft.
Since I was her Dad... and I had used Linux since 1993, she wrote her report on Linux and I helped her. She did a great job but only received a B. The instructor wrote across her paper, "marked down because Linux is a nonexistent system". The instructor thought she had meant to write the report about Unix and got the name wrong!
So if we've been pushy here on our forum we have good reason. Even now the rest of the media pretty much doesn't understand the Linux movement. They don't understand the "support" issue (I suppose hiring competent people is too much to ask). They don't understand the technical issues (two MS programmers were once given credit for "inventing" symbolic links). And, they don't understand the social issues (we're a community, dammit!).
I am proud to be a Linux advocate and a
And thanks.
No one ever had to evacuate a city because the solar panels broke!
That's what I was going to do too, but there isn't an actual reference on the front page (or even the FAQ) to the Happy Days story.
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
I remember regularly visiting "rob malda's linux page" (or whatever it was called) for AfterStep mods and other similar things. Then Rob says, and I'm paraphrasing, "don't read my journal anymore, I got a news site up and running" ... Slashdot!
Considering how long I've been reading Slashdot, it really surprises me that it's been only 5 years. It really seems longer than that. I agree with CmdrTaco with the hope that this site doesn't change much in 5 years. Even the design of the site (remember the uproar over the grey backdrop in late 1997 ?? ouch!).
Thanks Rob and everyone else for the great site. I think this is a good time for me to go and drop another $20 to supporting Slashdot. Keep up the great work!
He probably paid good money on ebay for that ;)
Beats buying Everquest characters anyway.
There's a scary thought, buying "desirable" UIDs in general.....
Troc
Troc's dubious podcast and blog: http://www.trocnet.net
First Happy Birthday to all of you, those I like and those I don't like. Anyway, it's you have made it together and hope to see this team for some more years. Only hope that some of you over there would be more careful on the quality of the posts...
/. is not comemorating it? Has CowBoyNeal go on holiday? Where's the Pool?
And now the remark. 5 years passed and the big huge feature of
Very funny. Speaking of which, were are all the other people with low user #'s?
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
Blue's News
/., but it's a pretty widely respected gaming news site.
It's not quite as popular as
As Blue's tagline says: "Established 1995. Over an eighth of a billion visitors since 1997."
AnandTech and Tom's Hardware are also up there.
Frankly, a lot of sites have been around since 1997. Find some non-university/corporate sites that have been around for 10 years with (relatively) high hit counts and it's more meaningful.
The best way to get lots of material for debates is to read /. and the comments at -1. =P
/. at -1, but that's another thing altogether.
/., and please continue to be provocative!
Also, the best way to get lost is to read
Happy birthday
I've got an emailed reply to one of my slashdot posts in January 1998, even though I don't have a user password email until September. I suspect September is just when Rob made permanent user accounts possible, so you may have been reading the site before then.
Also, I submitted this story and it was rejected! What gives!!!
Animation World Network has been continuously up since early 1996. http://www.awn.com/ . Very cool site.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
For one thing, "troll" and "truth" both have the same first letters and the same number of letters: five.
;D
So do "tripe" and "trash".
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
It is understandable why you might want to avoid the appearance of blowing your own horn, but perhaps a Slashdot meta-section might keep the myriad complaints about (moderation|metamoderation|karma|layout|...) from cluttering the other sections.
/. should as well.
Yes, I know Brand X has this, but perhaps
www.eFax.com are spammers
Some interesting bits here:
o rg
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I am a 2000 newbie, and in the 2 1/2 years I read slashdot I did not experience the hot "grits" and the "np petrified in stone (sic)" trolls. Can an old timer explain me ?
[Sorry, Waldo, you just did not sign up soon enough to qualify as an "old timer" to me... grin...]
:) I figure anything under 10,000 is relatively old-timerish; again, a figure that carefully includes myself and few people that joined after me. :)
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*Laugh*
It's funny how we all set our own threshhold for such things, ensuring that wherever we set our cutoff, it includes us.
I must say that a distinct change over the years has been a loss of community. I no longer see the same names as often as I once did. I now irrationally rely on low UIDs to determine the relative merits of comment, as opposed to saying "hey, isn't that [Nate Fox | singularity | Zow | Noke]?" There's just too many names and too many comments. This is less of a complaint and more of a lament, I suppose, but I do miss that aspect of
-Waldo Jaquith
I'll admit it, I'm a fucking junkie. Got my uid sometime in 2000, and haven't been able to stay away since! Thanks guys for a fun site - despite all the problems, there's nothing else like it.
sulli
RTFJ.
Internet time is like dog years: seven times faster than non-internet time, as they used to say in the rise and fall of the dot.comony.
I can't believe that after all these years of reading Slashdot, hanging here with my uber-low UID number. And I've made it all this time, managing to resist the temptation to post... Four and a half years without a single troll, flame, or even so much as a "me too!"
Wait a minute...
DOH!!
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And you've only posted 32 comments since then?
but there are still a hell of a lot o half arsed discussion sites out there that have a flat layout for comments
In an earlier life, when I was a DECcie we had a corporate network with maybe 100000 users and we had this groupware thingie called VAXnotes. Of course DEC couldn't sell it for shit, but it had a huge impact on the company internally.
The software was rather primitive. You installed it and created a conference on your box. The format went something like SLSHDT::COBOL for example, discussing the finer arts of Cobol. SLSHDT was the DECnet node, where it resided (limited to 6 chars, but those where the good ol' days).
Within the conference everybody could create an entry and after that it was just one flat stream of comments.
There where confererences for every product and every obscure piece of software which this company manufactured and produced. That was nifty, because if you had a Cobol question it wouldn't take an hour until somebody from Cobol engineering jumped in with a knowledgeable and comprehensive answer. But the most interesting part of the whole system where the EI (employee interest) conferences, which ranged from cats through tarrot over DEC issues (HUMANE::DIGITAL) up to Soapbox (damn! I can't even remember the node name...).
While it was primitive from a "layout" point of view I have never since experienced the power that a network can have on its participants. They where some really, really smart people bitching and flaming away, but sticking together whenever required. At one time we even pledged to get the best hated Soapbox contributor (Jamie, who was a very fat git, NOT!) to a boxbash in Bawston from Reading, UK.
It was also around that time (1993) when a really, really smart engineer (let's call him Dan K) mentioned something he was working on, something that would change the world, something so fucking (he didn't say fucking, since that was verboten) revolutionary it would blow us out of our socks. He couldn't really mention what it was, but it was later marketed under the term WWW.
Yep, it was a primitive form of discussion, but it didn't matter, not at all and it was one of the aspects in DECs culture, which made this company so great!
It saddens me until today, that one of the most important companies in computer history was sold off by a slick guy with a bad hairdo to some box-assembling marketing organisation in Texas.
ich bin der musikant
mit taschenrechner in der hand
kraftwerk
No wonder why it pulls tantrums from time to time!
6 years ago, I patented this whole thing. Slashcode, perl-based internet discussion boards, and the dark greenish color in conjunction with grey black and white. And the word "slashdot" and "Cowboy Neal"
I'll see ya in court buddy!
These are my friends, See how they glisten. See this one shine, how he smiles in the light.
By my calculations, Slashdot will be turning 33 In a few months.
Seriously, thanks for the waste of time. I mean that. My boss on the other hand...
Come on, "Baby Bells Deregulated" didn't really happen in the past 5 years, did it?!"
This stuff is hilarious! A sample story from 1998:
IBM announces a 25 gigger
Hardware Posted by Hemos on Wednesday November 11, @10:11AM
from the why-i-could-put-3/4-my-cd-collection dept.
Booker writes "So IBM announces a 25 gig hard drive... does the world need this yet? Unless this is in a RAID, would you really want to trust 25 gigs on a single drive? What would you use this for? 400+ hours of MP3s comes to mind... "
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Sssshhh!
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
When will the authors cache story content on slashdot?
(* world ends *)One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
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Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Oh, and you forgot the infamous Signal 11, founder of the Karma Whore movement. Too bad he retired.
Ahhh...the great dumpster continuum. Many a free computer will be found there. -- sowth (748135)
congrats on five years. how many websites can say they've lived that long?
and I have to say (this will sound like ass kissing but I've got karma to spare) this is the only site I'm guaranteed to read every day, several times a day.
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I remember being directed to this site back in December of 1997, or January of 1997. I wondered why I should consider registering, so I didn't for a year.
I then decided to, why not, go for it. I signed on, promptly switched jobs, and lost the login and password (still have the login, I think).
I am not sure when I created this login ID. I remember, however, when the first post was original. I remember when a decent word processor was what was needed for linux to have prime time. I remember discussing that as an AC in the beginning. Word Perfect 7, I think.
Anyways. I have enjoyed the site. Thanks guys!
They stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution, to...protect me from the enemy, myself
Hey, this post was made a year ago. When are these wacky editors going to start reviewing their submissions
You can find the number of users with a binary search. We know that the number of users is between 600K and 700K, so we can just use a binary search using 600K as a lower bound and 700K as an upper bound. With a 100K sized search then I think you should be able to find the exact number of users with no more than 17 requests. NOT 600 thousand. 17.
Note to M1-ers: a curt but otherwise insightful message is not "Flamebait" or "Troll".
Read this article...
Happy Birthday to slashdot!
See slashdot in light mode;
http://slashdot.org/index.pl?light=1
It helps lower Slashdot's bandwidth but still loads the top banner.
In the case of MsGeek.Org, they WERE wasting my disk space.
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