For me, Slashdot was the first big internet community. I wasn't materially involved in news groups before that. It's a little weird to think I wasn't 20 when I

For me, Slashdot was the first big internet community. I wasn't materially involved in news groups before that. It's a little weird to think I wasn't 20 when I started using /. I was also a little surprised to see there's still a website at the URL. And I can still log in with my old username. And, for the record, my autoincrement user id was 6533. During the height of their popularity having a 4 digit id give me a bit of geek cred :)