Slashdot didn't originally have user registration, you just typed your nick in a field when posting a comment. They were already quite popular when they begin t

Slashdot didn't originally have user registration, you just typed your nick in a field when posting a comment. They were already quite popular when they begin to require logins, and IIRC the <4 digit UIDs were consumed within a week or two. It would probably be a better metric to check UIDs under 20K or so. All this talk of early slashdot reminded me that (for some reason) my account had unlimited moderation points back in the old days.