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If you want to get off at every stop on the nostalgia train, Slashdot keeps a story archive going back to 1998: https://slashdot.org/archive.pl?op=bytime&keywo

If you want to get off at every stop on the nostalgia train, Slashdot keeps a story archive going back to 1998: https://slashdot.org/archive.pl?op=bytime&keyword=&year=1998 https://slashdot.org/archive.pl?op=bytime&keyword=&year=1998 Stand-out titles include: "Nintendo-64 or PlayStation? Which to buy for XMas?" "NGLayout now called Gecko to be released this week" "Microsoft blows it again with Windows 2000 name" "George Lucas Talks about new Star Wars movie" "Debian 2.0 Beta IRC Party Tonight" "PDA Overview: Pilot Still King"

runn1ng 7y ago
“Linux Desktop is DOA?” (December 30, 1998) Well not that much changed. (The submission comment talks how 1999 will be the year of the Linux desktop.)
- patsplat 7y ago
  Reading this on an Android phone... Some might argue it's an abuse of open source but it is Linux nonetheless.
- TheRealDunkirk 7y ago
  It was. RedHat with Ximian Desktop and Crossover Office was peak desktop Linux.
  - jacquesm 7y ago
    It was peak desktop, not peak desktop Linux, and the bulk of the smartphones that took the place of those desktops do in fact run Linux.
- kragen 7y ago
  Last year, to pick an arbitrary time period, it looks like manufacturers sold about 260 million computers running Microsoft operating systems, about 1.1 billion computers running Linux, and about 280 million computers running iOS, not counting embedded processors and servers that don't have their own displays. So your comment is correct, but only in the trivial sense that the UI on most computers has abandoned the "desktop" metaphor. A much bigger issue is that now people have much less freedom on all of these platforms, in much the way I wrote about in this essay in 1999: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kragen-software.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kragen-software.html
sersi 7y ago
Seems they don't have comments though which is a pity since comments are 90% of what Slashdot was about
- cmg 7y ago
  Particularly when you consider that so many of the links to the original sources just 404 now. Those archive pages are a glimpse into the past, but end up just being a tease.
- isostatic 7y ago
  90% of the comments were "First Post", "GNAAA", "Stephen King is dead", "Natile Portman and hot grits" Netcraft confirms little of value was lost.
  - Aenoire 7y ago
    GNAA almost seems quaint these days.
PhasmaFelis 7y ago
None of the articles there seem to have comments. Was no one commenting yet, or does this interface not provide them?
- isostatic 7y ago
  Sure. 1999 [0] Here's [2] some comments from the big story of September 2001. I remember watching that happening live on a bash pty on a desktop computer at home. Did the same (albeit a laptop) 500M seconds later on the other side of the planet. In the old days Slashdot was great - you'd get people from Bruce Perens [3] - he's still there, to John Carmak [4] to Wil Wheaton [5] It went downhill, but it might be worth revistiing. [0] https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=19383&cid=1897446 https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=19383&cid=1897446 [1] https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=15598&cid=2049318 https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=15598&cid=2049318 [2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/01/09/10/0353238/billenniums-over---anything-break https://tech.slashdot.org/story/01/09/10/0353238/billenniums... [3] https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13901478&cid=58544960 https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13901478&cid=58544960 [4] https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=116699&cid=9876672 https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=116699&cid=9876672 [5] https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=317777&cid=20872117 https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=317777&cid=20872117
  - PhasmaFelis 7y ago
    Cool, but I was asking about the comments on the Dec. '98 articles that sgentle linked to. I clicked through a few dozen and found no comments. The N64 vs. PlayStation post has a mod edit warning commenters to be civil and not turn it into a flamewar...and no comments. Were there really zero comments on these articles? Or did they use an older commenting system that wasn't archived, maybe?
    - isostatic 7y ago
      Articles had comments back to when slashdot as chips and bits [0] The current site doesn't have all the comments, the earliest comment I can see is Jan 1 1999 [1] Unless you could December 31st 1969 [2] [0] http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://slashdot.org/ http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://slashdot.or... [1] https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/01/01/1214258/notes-on-the-future-of-blender https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/01/01/1214258/notes-on-th... [2] https://science.slashdot.org/story/05/12/21/0211244/dna-of-woolly-mammoth-fully-sequenced?sdsrc=prev https://science.slashdot.org/story/05/12/21/0211244/dna-of-w... P.S. been looking at a few things -- really impressed by slashdot. They seem to have fixed the rabid randian comment sections and actually have a good discourse. But the best thing? Actually deleting comments. http://imgur.com/TjC0wM8l.png http://imgur.com/TjC0wM8l.png
eden_hazard 7y ago
Gonna hijack the top comment and share one of my favorites :P https://www.cameronsworld.net/ https://www.cameronsworld.net/

runn1ng 7y ago

“Linux Desktop is DOA?” (December 30, 1998) Well not that much changed. (The submission comment talks how 1999 will be the year of the Linux desktop.)

patsplat 7y ago
Reading this on an Android phone... Some might argue it's an abuse of open source but it is Linux nonetheless.
TheRealDunkirk 7y ago
It was. RedHat with Ximian Desktop and Crossover Office was peak desktop Linux.
- jacquesm 7y ago
  It was peak desktop, not peak desktop Linux, and the bulk of the smartphones that took the place of those desktops do in fact run Linux.
kragen 7y ago
Last year, to pick an arbitrary time period, it looks like manufacturers sold about 260 million computers running Microsoft operating systems, about 1.1 billion computers running Linux, and about 280 million computers running iOS, not counting embedded processors and servers that don't have their own displays. So your comment is correct, but only in the trivial sense that the UI on most computers has abandoned the "desktop" metaphor. A much bigger issue is that now people have much less freedom on all of these platforms, in much the way I wrote about in this essay in 1999: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kragen-software.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kragen-software.html

sersi 7y ago

Seems they don't have comments though which is a pity since comments are 90% of what Slashdot was about

cmg 7y ago
Particularly when you consider that so many of the links to the original sources just 404 now. Those archive pages are a glimpse into the past, but end up just being a tease.
isostatic 7y ago
90% of the comments were "First Post", "GNAAA", "Stephen King is dead", "Natile Portman and hot grits" Netcraft confirms little of value was lost.
- Aenoire 7y ago
  GNAA almost seems quaint these days.

PhasmaFelis 7y ago

None of the articles there seem to have comments. Was no one commenting yet, or does this interface not provide them?

isostatic 7y ago
Sure. 1999 [0] Here's [2] some comments from the big story of September 2001. I remember watching that happening live on a bash pty on a desktop computer at home. Did the same (albeit a laptop) 500M seconds later on the other side of the planet. In the old days Slashdot was great - you'd get people from Bruce Perens [3] - he's still there, to John Carmak [4] to Wil Wheaton [5] It went downhill, but it might be worth revistiing. [0] https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=19383&cid=1897446 https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=19383&cid=1897446 [1] https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=15598&cid=2049318 https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=15598&cid=2049318 [2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/01/09/10/0353238/billenniums-over---anything-break https://tech.slashdot.org/story/01/09/10/0353238/billenniums... [3] https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13901478&cid=58544960 https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=13901478&cid=58544960 [4] https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=116699&cid=9876672 https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=116699&cid=9876672 [5] https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=317777&cid=20872117 https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=317777&cid=20872117
- PhasmaFelis 7y ago
  Cool, but I was asking about the comments on the Dec. '98 articles that sgentle linked to. I clicked through a few dozen and found no comments. The N64 vs. PlayStation post has a mod edit warning commenters to be civil and not turn it into a flamewar...and no comments. Were there really zero comments on these articles? Or did they use an older commenting system that wasn't archived, maybe?
  - isostatic 7y ago
    Articles had comments back to when slashdot as chips and bits [0] The current site doesn't have all the comments, the earliest comment I can see is Jan 1 1999 [1] Unless you could December 31st 1969 [2] [0] http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://slashdot.org/ http://web.archive.org/web/19980113191222/http://slashdot.or... [1] https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/01/01/1214258/notes-on-the-future-of-blender https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/01/01/1214258/notes-on-th... [2] https://science.slashdot.org/story/05/12/21/0211244/dna-of-woolly-mammoth-fully-sequenced?sdsrc=prev https://science.slashdot.org/story/05/12/21/0211244/dna-of-w... P.S. been looking at a few things -- really impressed by slashdot. They seem to have fixed the rabid randian comment sections and actually have a good discourse. But the best thing? Actually deleting comments. http://imgur.com/TjC0wM8l.png http://imgur.com/TjC0wM8l.png

eden_hazard 7y ago

Gonna hijack the top comment and share one of my favorites :P https://www.cameronsworld.net/ https://www.cameronsworld.net/