I was a regular reader of Slashdot in the early 2000s. There were loads of discussions about politics, open source politics, flamewars, Microsoft EVIL, etc... M

I was a regular reader of Slashdot in the early 2000s. There were loads of discussions about politics, open source politics, flamewars, Microsoft EVIL, etc... Maybe not as much business and stock, perhaps because tech wasn't worth that much money yet, but it wasn't like all oooooh shiny tech news. IIRC 911 was one of the top commented posts, and US elections were probably up there as well. These days Microsoft kinda mellowed out (at least with regards to its attitude to open source and the non-MS dev community), and new tech giants came into the fray, but at least to me, the mix of news topics don't really seem that much different.