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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
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!
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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.
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.
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
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
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
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.
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.
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.
Over 3 million servers stress tested.
Over 2 million servers successfully slashdotted.
Welcome to the home of the 1337 H4X0RS!
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?
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!
Some idiots forgot their original passwords and had to create new accounts (like me). I remember creating this account and thinking ""A user number in the THIRTEEN THOUSANDS?!?! Everyone will think I'm a freaking n00b!" I don't feel so bad now though :-)
Unfortunately, most of the early people moved on. Slashdot used to be a very different thing than it is today, with far fewer posts per thread, and with more of an emphasis on discussion than comments. The moderation system kinda did away with that by breaking the linearity of most comments and hiding some others, and the massive influx of new users made those types of discussions unfeasible anyway. When this all happened, many of us whined and complained, but a huge number of users simply left.
There is nothing so pathetic as seeing a beautiful young theory roughed up by a tough gang of facts.