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>Makes me wonder what percentage of today's HN readers didn't live through the Slashdot era. Please don't out me as a ghost parent

• gizajob 11mo ago
  Slashdot was the shiznitt back in the day of ye olde web. Great submissions and great personality amongst the admins and commenters. On occasions when I’ve brought that attitude here I’ve been slapped down by dang…
  • firefax 11mo ago
    It certainly had an impression on me in my younger days -- moving over to Firefox and later messing around with Knoppix and becoming an open source geek probably stemmed in large part from seeing all the "Install Linux, problem solved" memes.
    • gizajob 11mo ago
      Yeah Knoppix jeez… what a mind bending revolution that was.