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Slashdot. The technical discussions, the flamewars, dumping on Jon Katz, William Gibson vs. Neal Stephenson, using the web as a primary source of news on 09-11-

by jdkee 7y ago

Slashdot. The technical discussions, the flamewars, dumping on Jon Katz, William Gibson vs. Neal Stephenson, using the web as a primary source of news on 09-11-2001. Posting as user #41803. https://m.slashdot.org/story/31348 https://m.slashdot.org/story/31348

pensv0 7y ago
Good times. I frequent box.sk for hacker type info too.
smsm42 7y ago
Slashdot was fun... But then somehow it stopped to be. Not sure even what happened. Posting as user 1XXX :)
- cmdrtaco 7y ago
  I have a few theories... :)
  - cambalache 7y ago
    The man the myth the legend!
  - prepend 7y ago
    What do you think were the two biggest reasons? How do you think it could have turned out differently to still have a site today with the same spirit?
- tenebrisalietum 7y ago
  When CmdrTaco left the site changed.
cmdrtaco 7y ago
bow