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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 ho

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

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