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In the 2000s, Slashdot had it down to an artform, where they would also inject real but outlandish stories into a stream of fakes. Made for a fun day of specula
by prometheus76 5y ago
In the 2000s, Slashdot had it down to an artform, where they would also inject real but outlandish stories into a stream of fakes. Made for a fun day of speculating on which were gaffs and which were real, and all would be revealed on April 2.
- iamtheworstdev 5y agothey got me hard with an announcement that enlightenment 1.0 was released. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/03/04/01/1423252/enlightenment-goes-10 https://tech.slashdot.org/story/03/04/01/1423252/enlightenme...
- imglorp 5y agoThere's a name from the past. They're still on 0.25 but looking sharp!
- tlavoie 5y agoMy personal favorite Slashdot prank was much more private. I work in security, and this old workplace had a prank-friendly atmosphere at the time. Co-workers knew I hit up Slashdot often, and I'd made a recent, unrelated gaffe on a project. I got a great startle when I hit up the home page, and the top story was all about my mistake! There was quite some effort put into looking exactly right, except that they'd missed using the logged-in view. It was also my prompt to learn all about arp-spoofing...