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CmdrTaco Looks Back on Fifteen Years of Slashdot
CmdrTaco sent in a link to his weblog post looking back on his experience running Slashdot for fifteen years: "For me the story of Slashdot is utterly inseparable from my own life. I built it while still in college: when normal people did their homework or had personal lives, I spent my evenings making icons in The Gimp, crafting perl in vim or writing a new story to share with my friends. I’ll never forget the nights spent tailing the access_log and celebrating a line from microsoft.com or mit.edu with friends like Jeff, Dave, Nate, and Kurt."
Over the last few years, my light hearted sarcasm was slowly replaced by bitterness. Somewhere along the line became unable to hide my feelings from my friends, family and finally even my co-workers.
Yeah, that's called "aging" and it's pretty common. Generally speaking, your chronological age bears a proportional relationship to the percentage of time you spend bitching about shit. By the time you're collecting Social Security, it's pretty much 95% bitching (the other 5% consisting mostly of bragging about your retarded grandkids, who you think are geniuses for some reason).
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
I've been here since the start, but I've never wanted or felt I needed to create an account.
In an age where we'll soon see sites require a facebook login for access (Or worse yet, a "like") despite all the "Natalie Portman, naked and petrified" and "Hot grits" and page widening trolls, thanks for keeping anonymous access an option.
AC- Anonymous before "Anonymous"
For spending that time to create this community. I've had many years of enjoyment from your work!
From an early admirer...
Farrell
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It's the most depressing article ever on Slashdot. It makes it sound like Slashdot is dying.
Let's not jump to conclusions - after all, Netcraft hasn't confirmed anything yet...
BSD is dying
this
'nuff said
correlation != causation
epic fail
IANAL, but
ftw!
1. something something, 2. ???, 3. profit
RTFA
wtf?
I see what you did there
cool story, bro
Star Trek
That word does not mean what you think it means
Battlestar Galactica
It's a trap
Natalie Portman
This is the year of Linux. --posted from my iPhone 4S
your wrong
loose
lowest common denominator
lol lol looooool
i wRiTe LiKe tHiS cuZ iM a T00L. epic!
prolly
dunno
I think Microsoft (and now here's an unnecessarily long sentence inside a parenthesis to make you forget about the main sentence) sucks.
blame Micro$oft
Apple fanbois
Microsoft fanbois
in 3, 2, 1...
sarcasm tag
Nothing of value was lost
Bwahahaha
troll
+1
mod parent up
Slashdot members have little to no social skills
your mom's basement
Free as in beer. (Free as in prune juice for typical slashdot users)
Duke Nukem Forever
Bill Gates borg
Developers! Developers! Developers!
iPad/iPod killer. Lame.
Al Gore invented the internets
640k is all you'll ever need
Tomato and DD-WRT because I'm el33t haxor
you must be new here
All you base are belong to us
FUD
you typical American elitist
You insensitive clod
goatse
Imagine a beowulf cluster
good luck with that
I, for one, welcome our new overlords
netcraft confirms it
you + point = over your head. whooosh
tl;dr
My smug superiority usually prevents me from responding to an AC, but here goes
I am a know-it-all in my high horse
first post
citation?
fixed that for you
that's what she said
Orwellian 1984
RMS
thank you, captain obvious
Sports? Girls? Sex? This is slashdot hahaha (Score:5, Insightful)
Get off my lawn
what does this have to do with news for nerds?
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dupe
slashdot has gone downhill recently im outta here
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If history is any indication, we'll see a dupe of this tomorrow. Probably posted by CmdrTaco himself!
what if a giant just wanted to buy Slashdot to shut it down because of the negative press it generates for them?
Easy.. we'll make our own slashdot, with blackjack and hookers. On second thought, scrap the /.
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I'm sad to see the changes...and I will agree that SlashDot is not what it was. I've been considering frequenting it less. I seldom post, but I do read a lot of articles (and quite often commentary). :)
Course, I'm not what I was 15 years ago either