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And I believe this slang came from Slashdot, which is like the Hacker News forum in the decade before Hacker News
by nayuki 6y ago
And I believe this slang came from Slashdot, which is like the Hacker News forum in the decade before Hacker News
- Agingcoder 6y agoInteresting, I didn't know it came from Slashdot! I spent quite a bit of time reading it in the early 2000s, and sometimes miss the subculture and not always subtle jokes (beowulf clusters... ). The moderation system encouraged jokes (there was a specific 'funny' tag), unlike HN which does not 'orient' things, and happens to be very serious.