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
Ten years since I've been an intern. And, in certain respects, I'm still sitting here this morning doing that same sort of stuff. That's... depressing. I need to go open a bicycle shop or something.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
Ah, ten years of Slashdot cliches. Here's to ten more, you crazy nerds. :)
Although my UID is not single digits or anything. I was a slahdotter before slashdot. If you know what chip-n-dips is, then you are an older geek like me.
Bonus points if you know what omphaloskepsis means.
10 years? Where has the time gone?
circa 10 years ago: http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://slashdot.org/
oldest I could find
I can't be certain, of course, but I believe that I wrote the first "you must be new here" post, and I've been regretting it ever since.
Yeah we lost like 3-4 months worth of stories... like 300-400 of them iirc. Back then I never really considered that we'd still be here a decade later and actually CARE about them ;)
Pants are still optional, but recommended for you.
Porn for Nerds. Stuff that splatters.
Now that it is the best chance I will have to post this question "on topic" for this story, I have always wondered what was the name of the "infamous" slashdot ID that was auctioned on ebay?
I feel so relieved that I did not discovered slashdot when I first heard about it (like 8 years ago when I was in the University, a friend of mine asked me [Norman, de la U. Baja California Sur...] "do you have an account in slashdot... it is the place where all the geeks discuss tech things") because I would have lost still more time than what I lose right now...
But hey, 10 years is quite a lot, I would like to congratulate Rob and the team for what they have achieved here. I would also like to be interested if some of the people being here before could make sort of a summary about the interesting issues that happened *inside* discussions, as for example the fact that a guy like NewYorkCountryLawyer is in slashdot, or the Scientology issue or the Sony rootkit (those all the ones I know... but I am fairly new, I am *sure* there sould be more interesting thigns in the discussions of slashdot).
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
I think the editors should post stories from 10 years ago, just to remember the times.
Opinions, anyone?
Quite an ingenious solution he came up with. Glad he didn't just remove it instead.
/. as a homepage? your a brave man. I tried it once. But every time i hopped online "real quick" to check the price of rice in china or whatever, i ended up spending 2 hours on /. and never looking up whatever the hell i got on for. So google is my homepage, and i have no shortcuts to slashdot anywhere.
but, alas, here i am...
And what is even sadder is I probably have those 3 to 4 months of stories stuffed into some netscape cache, on some drives cramed in my infinite shit pile of left over computer parts.
Supporting World Peace Through Nuclear Pacification
I feel your pain. Just 1051 users between me and the hollowed ground of 4-digitdom.
It'd be cool if /. added a table that listed blocks of ids, their user name and last time they'd logged in or posted. I can't imagine that too many of the 1051 users between me and 9999 are actually still active.
All editorial writers ever do is come down from the hill after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.
Very interesting.
I guess AC doesn't want any friends. I never liked that guy much anyhow!
blah blah blah
I think I signed up about 10 minutes after the announcement of user IDs.
http://unxmaal.com
Hey, after 10 years I finally get the meet the man standing just in front me in the line of uids... Pleased to meet you... :-) I was slowly getting convinced that by now I was about the only one still standing in that range. Sort of a lonely "last of the real slashdotians" feeling. :-)
Linux user since early January 1992.
User #2031 here.
I just looked up the email Slashdot sent when I joined (yes, I tend to archive *all* mail. Make fun of me, but it comes in handy during situations like this!)
3 September 1998.
I think I had read a while before that, but only signed up for an ID a little while later. I was not, and am still not, a fan of having to sign up for web pages. Slashdot proved itself over that month or two, so they got my information.
So in about eleven months, Slashdot only had a little over 2000 registered users. I am sure the growth was exponential after that.
I sent in a bug report about two months after that, talking about the new thresholds (I think signed-in users started at 1, and AC comments were 0).
Another bug was reported on 17 March 1999, talking about the new dynamic index.
I am not sure when I ordered my Slashdot t-shirt, but I think it was the first that was offered.
-User 2031, reporting in.
- (c) 2018 Hank Zimmerman
Yea, The first 1k were gone the first day if my old-fart memory serves. I forget what time exactly Taco opened up the registration system. It happened to be when I was sleeping, cause I got 431 when I woke up that morning. (afternoon probably)