October marks 10 friggin years of Slashdot, and nobody is more surprised
about any of this than me. Throughout the month we'll be running a series
of navel gazing meta news articles about our history, infrastructure and plans for the future. We're also
going to give away 500 t-shirts and
ThinkGeek gift certificates to people willing to
organize and attend their own local Slashdot parties. One lucky winner will get a cool grand to blow at ThinkGeek! I'm going to attend "official" gatherings in Ann Arbor, MI on Oct 20 and in Palo Alto, CA on Oct 25. But you can read on for details about party organization and how you can win the grand prize.
The idea is simple. Visit
the Slashdot Anniversary
Party Web Page. You can sign up to attend a party, or if there's nobody
hosting near you, you can create your own. The details of your local parties are up
to you- each has a corresponding discussion so you can work it out amongst
yourselves. The Ann Arbor gathering will be at a bar because dammit I'm old
and don't have time to go out for beers much these days. But you do whatever works for
the folks in your area. Dorm Room. Bar. Gym. Wherever several Slashdot readers
gather, we shall attempt to mail shirts until we run out.
To be eligible for schwag, you need to schedule your party by Oct 8 and sign up to attend a party
by Oct 9- this will give us time to figure out where to send the shirts, and time to send them before
you all start partying naked during the official party window of Oct 19-28.
As for the one thousand dollar ThinkGeek Gift Certificate grand prize, the winner
will be the party attendee who submits the coolest thing for our "scrapbook".
Videos. Pictures. Songs. Anything you can email. Something that proves that your party was the one we all wish we were at. The deadline for submissions will
be Oct 28. We'll have an official
submission email address posted later. This is all about creativity and coolness
so good luck with that. The grand prize winner will be posted on Oct 31, the end of the
month when we can all forget that any of this ever happened.
Oh, and happy birthday to us. Here's to wasting another decade, same as the first.
Slashdot Mirror
Bow-ties are cool.
....congratulate /. on making me an anonymous coward for 10 years.
It's only a matter of time for a 4 digit member to pop up, quickly followed by a 3 digit member.
I'll just cut this off now then.
Pants are still optional, but recommended for you.
Damn, have I been wasting my time that long? ;-) Any parties going up in Europe?
Frist psot!! Grits for everyone! I'd like to see someone more talented than myself integrate every Slashdot meme into a single sentence if possible, to commemorate the depths of our collective dorkiness. :)
Moderation: +1 pwnage
OMG HAXX!
I'm sure "SlashdotMedia" will improve on all the wonders that Dice Holdings blessed us all with
"Slashdot" and "parties". Two words I never expected to see anywhere near each other.
I write bullshit
Holy sh*t you mean the internet has been active for 10 years?
/.
Seriously though good job
The greatest revenge in life is massive success.
Nazi!
It's not wasting time, I'm educating myself.
this story is obviously a dupe
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Everyone knows AC is user id 0.
I for one welcome our cliché-generating overlords...
GetOuttaMySpace - The Anti-Social Network
What are the minimum requirements for an event to be called a "Slashdot Party" and thus eligible for those fabulous prizes? Because I've been getting loaded by myself and posting drivel on Slashdot for years. If that's not good enough to qualify as a Slashdot Party, I can put on some house music next time.
In order to stay closer to the "spirit" of Slashdot, I can buy the same beer two events in a row and then shout "dup!" at myself. Then, I can complain bitterly about the quality of the beer, and how I used to buy much better beer 10 years ago before I sold out and got all "corporate". I'll hang a big banner that says "2007: The Year of Linux on the Desktop" and shout "Windows Sucks!" at passersby. Finally, I'll pour hot grits down my pants and pass out on the keyboard mumbling sweet nothings about what I'd do to a petrified Natalie Portman.
The last thing I should do, if I want to keep the event true to the Slashdot spirit, is to invite others to attend. So, I think my party will be the most "authentic" Slashdot party of them all. Where's my t-shirt?
Editors give presents to you? ...wait
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
10. Leaving parents basement. The light! The light!
9. People only like me on Slashdot because they cannot smell me on slashdot
8. People will probably bring laptops, and I run Windows Vista
7. People will realize I am not a) an astrophysicist nor b) a hot female astrophysicist
6. While I can get away with visiting Slashdot at work, people will actually notice I am not working if I go to this.
5. Actual, retributive karma likely if my "foes" met me in person
4. I don't remember my password
3. ???
2. profit!
and finally
1. I don't actually want to be associated with any of you in real life (I keed, I keed!)
Before slashdot we would all carve posts on the branches of an over grown shrub. Thus the first post would be inscribed on the trunk, and later posts would be written on branches or leaves. The down side was a survey would last for a very long time before it would be replaced(see the red woods of California). Also you had to go to the bush or tree to read posts, and reply. If it was a popular topic, like how waterfalls could make rainbows, or the wheel, you would often need to climb for quite a long time to post anything. And often times on your accent you could climb the wrong direction and end up making your comment on the wrong branch. Then your leaf or stick would be broken off of the shrub or tree and burnt, because you were off topic. The modern lumberjack and tree surgeon are decedents of the first attempt at moderation. This also is where the term 'flame war' came from. People would climb trees and cut off all branches with some ones posts and burn them.
We are the Borg...
you forgot about insensitive clod, you insensitive clod.
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
Agreed...
I've had this 4 digit ID for a while now...
Oh, wait, it'd be almost 10 years, I guess.
I always knew Bill Gates posted here!
You've stolen my bit!
It's in the memes.. the glorious memes! And the dupes! It's all in the memes! And the dupes! I think it's also in the memes!
which is totally what she said
If anyone's interested in a party here in Budapest, just reply. And by interested in, I mean willing to host and provide food for.
In Soviet Russia, a Beowulf cluster of our grit-covered Natalie Portman overlords, to whom all your base belong, welcomes you.
Virtue finds and chooses the mean.
Aristotle, Ethica Nichomachea
We've seen the tech sector boom
We've seen the tech sector bust
And Linux STILL isn't ready for the desktop.
"Why did they cancel my favorite Sci-Fi show? I downloaded ALL the episodes!"
If you manage to organize a party in Soviet Russia, we'll send you two Slashdot Cruisers...
Hi guys....just checking in and showing off my ID.
What about the first karma whore?
Happy Birthday To You!
Happy Birthday To You!
Happy Birthday Dear Slashdot! (*HOT GRITS AND GOATSE!*)
Happy Birthday To You!
=)
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Think five nines.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Bah... you must be new here. I'm sure you missed at least one.
1. In Soviet Russia, a Beowulf cluster of our grit-covered Natalie Portman overlords, to whom all your base belong, welcomes you.
2. Cowboyneal blows kdawson while jon katz films
3. Profit!!!
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Don't worry it's still your year number 10 ;)
I see that I am registered use 539. I was surfing the site before registration was required. I must be getting old if this site is a decade old
Remember being mocked 'cause we were newbies that weren't even around for Chips & Dips...
~ a low user id is no indication I have a clue what I'm talking about.
Hi there!
...phil
"For a list of the ways which technology has failed to improve our quality of life, press 3."
I'm so getting laid at one of these parties...
karma Whore....
=)
Congrats on a decade, and over $1 billion in lost fortune 500 productivity.
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2.5 million B.C.: OOG the Open Source Caveman develops the axe and releases it under the GPL. The axe quickly gains popularity as a means of crushing moderators' heads.
100,000 B.C.: Man domesticates the AIBO.
10,000 B.C.: Civilization begins when early farmers first learn to cultivate hot grits.
3000 B.C.: Sumerians develop a primitive cuneiform perl script.
2920 B.C.: A legendary flood sweeps Slashdot, filling up a Borland / Inprise story with hundreds of offtopic posts.
1750 B.C.: Hammurabi, a Mesopotamian king, codifies the first EULA.
490 B.C.: Greek city-states unite to defeat the Persians. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the Greeks "get it".
399 B.C.: Socrates is convicted of impiety. Despite the efforts of freesocrates.com, he is forced to kill himself by drinking hemlock.
336 B.C.: Fat-Time Charlie becomes King of Macedonia and conquers Persia.
4 B.C.: Following the Star (as in hot young actress) of Bethelem, wise men travel from far away to troll for baby Jesus.
A.D. 476: The Roman Empire BSODs.
A.D. 610: The Glorious MEEPT!! founds Islam after receiving a revelation from God. Following his disappearance from Slashdot in 632, a succession dispute results in the emergence of two troll factions: the Pythonni and the Perliites.
A.D. 800: Charlemagne conquers nearly all of Germany, only to be acquired by andover.net.
A.D. 874: Linus the Red discovers Iceland.
A.D. 1000: The epic of the Beowulf Cluster is written down. It is the first English epic poem.
A.D. 1095: Pope Bruce II calls for a crusade against the Turks when it is revealed they are violating the GPL. Later investigation reveals that Pope Bruce II had not yet contacted the Turks before calling for the crusade.
A.D. 1215: Bowing to pressure to open-source the British government, King John signs the Magna Carta, limiting the British monarchy's power. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1348: The ILOVEYOU virus kills over half the population of Europe. (The other half was not using Outlook.)
A.D. 1420: Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press. He is immediately sued by monks claiming that the technology will promote the copying of hand-transcribed books, thus violating the church's intellectual property.
A.D. 1429: Natalie Portman of Arc gathers an army of Slashdot trolls to do battle with the moderators. She is eventually tried as a heretic and stoned (as in petrified).
A.D. 1478: The Catholic Church partners with doubleclick.net to launch the Spanish Inquisition.
A.D. 1492: Christopher Columbus arrives in what he believes to be "India", but which RMS informs him is actually "GNU/India".
A.D. 1508-12: Michaelengelo attempts to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling with ASCII art, only to have his plan thwarted by the "Lameness Filter."
A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait).
A.D. 1553: "Bloody" Mary ascends the throne of England and begins an infamous crusade against Protestants. ESR eats his words. A.D. 1588: The "IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS" guy meets the Spanish Armada.
A.D. 1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu unites the feuding pancake-eating ninjas of Japan.
A.D. 1611: Mattel adds Galileo Galilei to its CyberPatrol block list for proposing that the Earth revolves around the sun.
A.D. 1688: In the so-called "Glorious Revolution", King James II is bloodlessly forced out of power and flees to France. ESR again triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1692: Anti-GIF hysteria in the New World comes to a head in the infamous "Salem GIF Trials", in which 20 alleged GIFs are burned at the stake. Later investigation reveals that mayn of the supposed GIFs were actually PNGs.
A.D. 1769: James Watt patents the one-click steam engine.
A.D. 1776: Trolls, angered by CmdrTaco's passage of the Moderation Act, rebel. After a several-year
Damn, I know I should've registered earlier.
About time I lost a "who's is the smallest" contest...
That's what she said.
Its nice and shiny :)
Congrats to Taco, 10 years is a long time!
And?
You can't take the sky from me...
Has it been ten years already? I really should get back to work!
Same here. I probably just woke up an hour or two before you that morning. :)
- Robin
Damn.
My Freakin Blog
Hello, hi.
-bwulf
Everyone knows CmdrTaco was replaced by a small shell script years ago.
I didn't think the house band in Hell would play this badly.
325 and beowulf was already taken?
Less is more.
Who won? Who won?
We know they've really been keeping score.
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insightful you say?
right....
Did you notice that the poll question actually childishly asks people to read the editorial before voting? Boy, have we grown up since then...
Linux user since early January 1992.
You mean they don't do that already?
Dear /. Reader,
Last week we selected [famous name] as an authority in [field] to answer some of your best and brightest questions. We've included [his/her] responses below:
[the I-think-you-are-cool-and-would-like-to-be-like-you question]
1. How did you choose [field] and how can I get more involved in [field].
[famous name] Well, I really started by [...at this point, [famous name] begins to launch into a short autobiography. The reply to this first question will take up about as much space as the other 9 combined.]
[the multi-part question]
2. I think you are really cool. What are you feelings on [topic]?
and how it relates to groundhogs
[famous name] Phew! That sure is a lot to answer. Well I guess you could sum it up neatly by saying that, yes, I do like it all.
[the I-also-like-[other-topic]-do-you-think-it's-relate d-to-your-[field] question]
3. I really like your work and am also interested in the whole Napster-Metallica-MP3 debate. How do you think it relates to your scientific [field]?
[famous name] Well, I, well, uh... [at this point, [famous name] is thinking, "Where in the world did that question come from? Oh well, I'll try to be polite and answer it] I really think that, uh, music should be, uh, heard--yeah, heard!--and I think that, uh, well, Napster provides a service of hearing.
[the really-in-depth question]
4. Dear [famous name],
I have tracked your research into biogenetical ESP CIO medicare research with great interested and wondered if you could clarify a minor point for me: in your estimation, are the EIO levels in a controlled AF/BF reaction substantially higher than the CF/DF state because of genetic-electro-magnetic lunar levels or is it mostly from O2 radiation WRT our helial position?
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[the Score:5, Funny question]
5. What do you think of Natalie Portman eating hot grits in a Boewulf cluster?
[famous name] Uh, well, I'm not really sure what you mean. Wasn't Natilie Portman that actress in Star Wars or something? [[famous name] is now wondering what he's got himself into, and who exactly are these Slashdot people...]
[the your-work-sucks-I-scoff-at-you question]
6. Hey [famous name's first name], I seen you on CNBC and I gotta tell ya, I don't think it's gonna work. I mean, whose to say that you even gradated from MIT in the 1st place? Are we supose to believe that stuff? If ur so smart, how come you haven't figured it out yet?????!!!!!
[famous name] Well I believe we can make this work. I realize we've spent $80 million in research already, but if you look at the data I think you'll see that our work has some definite promise here. The possibilities for science are almost endless!
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Does posting in a thread visited by the great CmdrTaco get you more karma? ...
Hi Mom!
It could always be worse...
Knara! You senile old gimp! ;)
Bah... you must be new here. I'm sure you missed at least one.
Of course he missed one, you insensitive clod !Haha! How often do you see "Who's got the smallest?" matches?