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See a Random Slashdot Story from 2017 (destinyland.net)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the fun-with-flashbacks dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Happy New Year, Slashdot! To say goodbye to 2017, I've created a web page that displays random Slashdot stories from the year gone by.

It chooses a page from over 6,600 different URLs -- every story that Slashdot ran in 2017. And every time you reload this page, it pulls up a different story from 2017.


38 comments

  1. No thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Let that fucking trashfire of a year finally die...

    1. Re:No thanks by I'm+New+Around+Here · · Score: 1

      Are you kidding? I just read a few posts from January, and the amount of liberal butthurt was astounding. The crazy things they were saying, things that have been talked about all year and still no solution they would like.

      It's priceless.

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      If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
    2. Re:No thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How much lead paint were you exposed to as a child?

    3. Re: No thanks by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 1

      Hey dumbfuck. Have you ever heard the expression "The wheels of justice turn slowly, but they do turn"? You think nothing is happening because you aren't paying attention, and when you are your attention is still on the same idiots that created this mess that will take years to sort out.

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      Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
    4. Re:No thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You think one year is going to compare to life in prison? Enjoy, you deserve it.

    5. Re: No thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The wheels aren't turning, they parked the car and hopped on a boat to go on a fishing expedition.

    6. Re: No thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You sure are gonna be disappointed by 2018.

    7. Re: No thanks by I'm+New+Around+Here · · Score: 1

      As I said, the butthurt is priceless.

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      If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
    8. Re:No thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What makes you think this one is going to be any better?

  2. hmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Does that include this story too?

  3. Re:See Trump in prison in 2018! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Golf and smartphones are inventions of hell. You'll be required to win a PGA women's tour as a quadriplegic and install beta versions of Android.

    Worse case they'll make you watch WNBA games while Tweeting how much you love tall black women.

  4. Congratulations by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

    We are in the Golden Age of Slashdot.

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    You are welcome on my lawn.
    1. Re:Congratulations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The Trump age? You mean slashdot is going to prison too?!

    2. Re: Congratulations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The golden age of Slashdot ended a long time ago. As much as we complained about things when Taco, Hemos, CowboyNeal, and others ran the site, it was much better then. Slashdot was Taco's personal project, and it meant something to him even a decade after he created it. Taco was still tinkering around with ideas and trying to improve the site. It wasn't simply about the money, but something that was clearly meaningful to him. It was far from perfect, but I can appreciate that. When whipslash bought Slashdot, I had high hopes that Slashdot would be as meaningful to him as it was to Taco. Sadly, that's proven to not be the case, and Slashdot continues to coast on what Taco and his crew built.

    3. Re: Congratulations by arth1 · · Score: 1

      I think you failed to spot PopeRatzo's rather thick irony.

      When adding a random link is seen as a feat, it means it's pretty close to rock bottom. Fixing the broken HTML here, or a simple UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 conversion would have been easy, but apparently beyond the capacity of the new owners.

    4. Re: Congratulations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I understood PopeRatzo's irony perfectly. Previously, whipslash has stated he reads most of the comments that get posted to Slashdot. Although my reply was to PopeRatzo, I posted it for the benefit of whipslash. I remember right after whipslash purchased Slashdot, he posted a story about it, then spent a lot of time enthusiastically replying to all of the feedback he received. As I said, I hoped whipslash would take a personal interest in improving Slashdot, that this site was meaningful to him, rather than simply wanting to add it to the portfolio of websites he owns. Sadly, very few of those changes have actually been implemented, and Slashdot remains a mess.

      Also, the articles interest me less now than in the past. There was a time in the past when it was possible to learn a lot just from reading the comments and seeing what the experts thought about the topic. Most of those people are long gone, though Bruce Perens still posts here sometimes. Slashdot has essentially become a generic technology site with a distrust of tech, which is a departure from the past. I'm more interested in hardware, software, programming, and open source. The political discussions are particularly tiresome. My time was much better spent today learning my way around SDL than it was reading the stories on Slashdot. In the past, reading Slashdot would introduce me to new ideas, which made it worth my time, but that seems to be long gone.

  5. Click here for the response post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Back in the day this used to work really well, and I remember spending many hours absorbed in this kind of thing because it was so fun.

    Then the greedy SJWs came along and ruined everything with their "diversity" mindset.

    I, for one, will never buy another one of their products from this day forward.

    1. Re:Click here for the response post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I love how angry these inbred nazi faggots get. This one is triggered like a conservative snowflake in a library, lol.

  6. Goodbye by Colourspace · · Score: 1

    Been visiting here since 1998 (spring, so not quite 20 years sadly) when I had a much lower UID, lost to the winds with an old work related email. Sadly, this place has lost its soul and has really become a cesspit of US politics where it was once a great place to talk about news for nerds. So much hateful AC'ing which seemed like a good idea originally but is now a stupid mechanism. I'm done, sad to say goodbye but time for this place to die. Sadly, it's unlikely in the current climate that anything like the original would even exist now, let alone take its place. I'm an EE, and love technology but the Internet has turned to fucking shit and much of it needs pulling the plug on now, permanently. Good luck and much love.

    1. Re:Goodbye by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      After we round up and exterminate the treasonous inbred nazi faggots in the mass culling, I promise things will be more civil around here. Hang in there.

    2. Re:Goodbye by rmdingler · · Score: 2

      I'm an EE, and love technology but the Internet has turned to fucking shit and much of it needs pulling the plug on now, permanently. Good luck and much love.

      20 years ago, give or take a season, there was much less available internet content and there were far fewer users. Of the users in the wild, wild west of '98, I'd say it's a fair gambit a much larger portion of the crowd had tech or computer backgrounds.

      There is no surviving 20+ years on a fickle internet without some compromise to cover the bills. Sad and not very idealistic, but it's the World the internet has grown into.

      Hope you'll reconsider.

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      Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

      Ernest Hemingway

    3. Re:Goodbye by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You don't seem to understand that YOU are a worthless nobody that will never accomplish anything. There is no "we". No one likes you. It's so fucking obvious.

    4. Re:Goodbye by kaatochacha · · Score: 1

      Nicely put, and I think you're right. I'm sure automobile gearheads back in the stone age of cars probably complained when every moron with a drivers license would talk about cars, and they couldn't even work on one!

  7. Actually, chi-squared shows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They were ALL pretty random.

  8. 9-11 was a Jew job by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ae911truth dot org

    God bless ISIS

  9. I didn't RTFA the first time. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What makes you think I'll do it now?

  10. re: ./ exit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Thank you for your patronage. Please note that any child processes you were running will exit as well, unless you "nohup'd" them.

    cheers,
    yfac

  11. Time for Slashdot to die by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So many non-stories like this. So much Microsoft PR passed off as stories too. And now this?

    All that is left are old timers like us who log on daily and ask why another dog turd has been shat on the front page?

    Why did Slashdot's new owners pay top dollar for the site and then replace the the old editors who made the site great in the first place?

    Nice work, guys! https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/slashdot.org

    1. Re: Time for Slashdot to die by Colourspace · · Score: 1

      If you really agreed with me you should show some balls and not posted as AC.

    2. Re: Time for Slashdot to die by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well if I'm going to argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.

    3. Re:Time for Slashdot to die by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Those top sites in "What sites link to slashdot.org?" are really fucking bizarre.

      How fast does slashdot.org load?
        Very Slow (3.128 Seconds), 81% of sites are faster.

      lol

    4. Re: Time for Slashdot to die by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You miss the point, Colourspace. People want news. They don't want a "relationship" with you.

  12. If I want to see a tech story from months ago... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    If I want to see a tech story from months ago I can just go to the Slashdot front page.

  13. Dupes? by techno-vampire · · Score: 1

    Does that number in TFS include dupes or not. And, does whatever picks the random story take dupes into account? There might be some small point to this if the dupes are filtered out, but if not, there's too much of a chance that when you reload the page, you'll just get a different copy of the same story.

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    Good, inexpensive web hosting
  14. random story simulator by slashmydots · · Score: 2

    So basically...Some Apple crap is defective again. Some Apple crap is defective again. Some Apple crap is defective again. Some Apple crap is defective again.

  15. One in 365 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So that's only a 1/365 chance of seeing an "OMG Ponies" or similar AFJ article? I like those odds.

  16. Also 2018 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I created a link that yields a Slashdot story from a random point in 2018. Check it out: arstechnica.com