Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents

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.

Comments

And to think, I woke up today and didn't feel old

[Skyshadow]

Back in 1997 I first logged onto Slashdot from my office at SGI's Chippewa Falls location (better known as 'Cray'). Back then we didn't even need to log in -- you just entered your username when you posted.

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.

obligatory

[osoroco]

circa 10 years ago: http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://slashdot.org/
oldest I could find

Re:One has to ask...

[CmdrTaco]

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 ;)

Re:This month?

[jamie]

PS- does anybody remember the "suckdot" parody suck.com did? The Penguin with the scimitar was hilarious.

Porn for Nerds. Stuff that splatters.

Re:wow

[xtracto]

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).

Suggestion: Reposting stories from 10 years ago

[Spy der Mann]

I think the editors should post stories from 10 years ago, just to remember the times.

Opinions, anyone?

Re:wow

[Unxmaal]

I think I signed up about 10 minutes after the announcement of user IDs.

Re:And to think, I woke up today and didn't feel o

[mce]

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. :-)

Re:wow

[SuperQ]

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)