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Slashdot Turns 15, What Are You Doing Later?

Posted by samzenpus on from the party-like-it's-2012 dept.

October marks Slashdot's 15th birthday. That's right, we're almost old enough to drive the PT Cruiser. Throughout October we'll be running a number of meta news articles about our history, plans for the future, and special interviews. We're also giving away T-shirts to people willing to organize and host the biggest Slashdot parties. It's easy to get started. Just visit the Slashdot Anniversary Party Web Page. Sign up to go to a party, or if there aren't any in your area, create your own during the official party period of Oct. 20-30. The details of your local parties are up to you. Each has a corresponding discussion so you can work it out amongst yourselves. Wherever several Slashdot readers gather, we'll attempt to mail shirts until we run out. Geeknet will host parties in San Francisco, New York, and Ann Arbor. To be eligible for schwag, you need to schedule your party by September 27, or sign up to attend one by September 28. This will give us time to figure out where to send the shirts, and time to send them. Help us celebrate 15 years of news for nerds and stuff that matters.

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  1. What are you doing later? by aurashift · · Score: 5, Funny

    Call me when you're 18.

    1. Re:What are you doing later? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      eewwww. I would never touch slashdot... it's covered in goatse trolls, and judging from the articles on the front page, it's borderline retarded.

    2. Re:What are you doing later? by alexander_686 · · Score: 2

      What do you mean by "almost old enough to drive the PT Cruiser." Isn’t the minimum age to drive 14? (And yes, I did grow up in a farm state)

    3. Re:What are you doing later? by Enry · · Score: 3, Funny

      And grits. Never forget the grits.

    4. Re:What are you doing later? by Jane+Q.+Public · · Score: 2

      " There's been talk for years of raising it to 18."

      They talked about doing that here, too. They also did try some "restricted privileges" between 16 and 18.

      Big mistake. The State needs to decide on an age that is "adult", and stick with it. Instead, they have been pushing these namby-pamby rules about "old enough to decide this for yourself, but not that".

      It's all bullshit. Set an age, have done with it. We don't need all those lawyers. Really.

  2. Next to the plant in the corner by Ashenkase · · Score: 2

    A party?! With my fellow neck-beards?! How engaging!

    1. Re:Next to the plant in the corner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Timmy's bring all his movies. Come on, it'll be FUN! My mom's making popcorn and pizza bites and we can stay up until 11PM.

      Plus, and don't tell anyone this, there will be pr0n.

  3. Hey Slashdot by bazald · · Score: 2

    What happened to the attendees lists for the 10th anniversary parties? The comments have been preserved, but they all seem to be registering 0 attendees. Losing that history is a bit sad.

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    1. Re:Hey Slashdot by vroom · · Score: 5, Informative

      10 year attendee data issue has been fixed, so you can see them again. We added that menu option precisely so you could see the historical parties, and attendees.

  4. Party? by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know, I might meet some of the people I've insulted.

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    "First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
  5. Commenters are worth it! by zipherx · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have been reading /. for about all the time I have really worked in IT, when a few friends and I started out Cybercafe back in Martch '97. The era of Quake and IRC, I will never forget.
    Thanks for all the news, and the great comments, who, most of the time are worth spending quite alot of time reading (more interesting than the actual news) ;)

    Have some nice parties, "overthere".

  6. Ye Olde Slashdot by Phusion · · Score: 2

    I started reading Slashdot some time in high school (late 90's), this was the beginning of my career in IT. I was hired sophomore year to be a member of the paid IT staff and never looked back. I'm also part of a loyal bunch of pot headed IT folk by the name of "Smokedot". We've been around for almost as long, but consume a lot more dorritos.

    Thank you Slashdot, even though Rob called me a noob at LinuxWorld a while back, I still love you.

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  7. User ID vs year joined? by Sebastopol · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Is there a way to see when I joined based on my ID? I think it was some time in 1997.

    It'd be cool to see how membership has grown....

    User Ids:
    1995 : 0 - 1000
    1996: 1001 - 50000
    1997; 50,000 - 200,000
    etc...

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    1. Re:User ID vs year joined? by Rob+Kaper · · Score: 2

      You didn't get yours in 1997. That is 15 years ago.

    2. Re:User ID vs year joined? by LuxuryYacht · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Some of us would just visit the site daily without siging up until a couple of years later to be able to submit stories, post or moderate.

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    3. Re:User ID vs year joined? by curunir · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I started reading late '97 but wasn't convinced to actually sign up until sometime in '99. My guess is that you signed up early 2000. There were a lot of people who lurked and posted anon back then rather than sign up, so slightly higher IDs aren't really an indication that people missed the early days.

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    4. Re:User ID vs year joined? by alexandre · · Score: 2

      Low ID? :D

    5. Re:User ID vs year joined? by aok · · Score: 2

      When Slashdot finally implemented user accounts, there was a bit of paranoia about people losing their anonymity and I held off joining until finally one of the features was too juicy to have...I think it was one of the ways to sort posts :)

      Back then, or a little before, you could essentially read every post every day without it taking TOO much of your time. LOL.

  8. Host a G+ Hangout! by tetrahedrassface · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Please host a series of G+ hangouts. Come on guys please? I'm begging.

    1. Re:Host a G+ Hangout! by Soulskill · · Score: 2

      Interesting idea, we hadn't thought of that. I'll see if that's something we can do.

  9. That must be some party ... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can only imagine how that party plays out.

    Several groups standing around flaming one another over something inane. A couple of people saying the party is a dupe. One guy in the corner talking about picking poo out of the toilet in the library. A couple of people walking around with the goatse picture trying to get people to look at it. And one or two people who seem to have Tourette's shouting obscenities for no good reason. One really loud guy saying the iPad is for hipster douchebags even though he's never used one. The odd mumble about our new Dice (or other) overlords.

    Shame there's not one near me. ;-)

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  10. Re:Meta: get editors. Stop posting crap. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Looking at your list of submissions I wouldn't throw any stones there chief.

  11. Has it been that long? by Hecubas · · Score: 3, Interesting

    15 years of an almost daily ritual, and yet 99% of the time I don't post myself. Still, good times!

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  12. How about some birthday presents for the users by onyxruby · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Let's give the users some birthday presents. How about bringing about some features that people have been asking for?

    Mobile Application - how does a technology based website /not/ have a mobile application?
    Mobile Support - actually trying to use slashdot on a mobile platform is painful.
    Simple Status Change - a simple delta of how people have modded you or commented on your comments?
    A disagree button - it's 15 years on and their is still no simple 'disagree', instead fanbois simply -1 any comment against their pet /whatever/
    Comment activity - if you've got a comment that's being heavily modified you can't get the stats for it anymore, as memory serves you used to.
    Your user stats - once upon a time these were available, now your limited to your number of +5 comments
    Better shill detection - I wouldn't think this would be that hard to program, but I'm not a programmer
    Editor - enough said!

    1. Re:How about some birthday presents for the users by Soulskill · · Score: 5, Interesting

      We've got a couple presents coming. We're just about done wrapping them.

    2. Re:How about some birthday presents for the users by organgtool · · Score: 2

      We're just about done wrapping them.

      That's what someone says when they forgot to buy the present!

  13. Re:Why a PT Cruiser? by Bob+the+Super+Hamste · · Score: 2

    I thought that distinction went to the Pontiac Aztec.

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  14. Re:Should have just held it a little early... by Soulskill · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm going to have to see a birth certificate to validate your UID.

  15. Re:First? by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 2

    I'll get there early so I can prep my speech about how great Windows 7 Phone is.

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  16. Makes me feel old. by Erich · · Score: 2

    In a lot of ways, things are more or less the same. The SNR is lower, but that's true for the internet as a whole. :-(

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    Slashdot reader since 1997

  17. You still look 12 by rickb928 · · Score: 2

    ...or 26, depending on the lighting.

    While we're at it:

    "This post was removed due to Dice content standards violations. "

    So your new foster parents are a little uptight about stuff, eh? Too bad about that. You may be no fun to play with soon, but at least the worst trolls will be dismayed. For a while.

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    1. Re:You still look 12 by Soulskill · · Score: 4, Informative

      Actually, that's just people finding a new way to troll by pasting that line into their comments. No posts are being deleted.

    2. Re:You still look 12 by Soulskill · · Score: 3, Informative

      *shrug*

      You're welcome to believe or not as you choose, but a quick browse through at -1 should provide plenty of evidence that even the most uncomplimentary or impolite comments are staying in place.

  18. T-Shirt sizes by alexandre · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Please ship the t-shirts somewhat like this:

    10% Small 50% Medium, 30% Large, 10% XLarge

    and not only "large" (or was it XL?) like the 10th anniversary...

    Cheers and happy birthday! :D

    1. Re:T-Shirt sizes by EricWright · · Score: 3, Insightful

      This is slashdot ... Try 1% Small, 9% Medium, 30% Large, 40% X-Large and 20% XXXL

  19. Re:i joined in 2000. or 1999. i forget by Hotawa+Hawk-eye · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They're not necessarily correlated. I created an account a while back (over a decade ago) under my college email address. I'd consider that to be when I "joined" Slashdot. After I graduated I lost access to that email address. Since I didn't remember the password for that old account, and didn't have access to the email address to which the password change email would be sent, that account is dead and so I created this new one. In hindsight, I should have changed the email on that old account to use an address to which I would retain access even after graduation, but hindsight is 20/20 and my foresight is significantly worse.

  20. Montréal's party by alexandre · · Score: 2

    Le voilà:
    http://slashdot.org/anniversary.pl?view_id=843

  21. Same name, different critter? by macraig · · Score: 2

    Only it's not really the same "Slashdot" any more now, is it? It's like a sex slave being passed around from one plantation owner to another, but none of 'em likes her enough to cough up a weddin' ring.

  22. One thing's for sure by GodfatherofSoul · · Score: 2

    This party is going to be a sausage fest.

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  23. Thanks, Slashdot! by organgtool · · Score: 2

    My feelings about Slashdot can be summed up in the words of a great philosopher: "I've never felt so accepted in all my life. These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."

    Thanks for providing one of the best internet forums for intelligent discussions. Some people will claim that this site isn't what it once was, but many other sites have come up and none of them provide a better format for progressive discussions. Don't ever lose that, Slashdot!