Feel a bit like this deserves a Hacker News black bar. Reading Slashdot back in the day, Roblimo, CmdrTaco - those were good times. I was at the early bit of

Feel a bit like this deserves a Hacker News black bar. Reading Slashdot back in the day, Roblimo, CmdrTaco - those were good times. I was at the early bit of my career then, and being part of communities like Slashdot, Sourceforge, etc. were instrumental in helping me grow and more importantly learn about the constant changes in our field - so to me, these folks are also heroes of the Internet as much as some of the founders - for example, people like Vint Cerf, or Tim Berners Lee. Maybe in a slightly different way, but heroes of our communities none-the-less. RIP.