/. user #5825 here. I have great memories of the old days. Let's start a list of funny and cool things that we learned about for the first time on Slashdot.

/. user #5825 here. I have great memories of the old days. Let's start a list of funny and cool things that we learned about for the first time on Slashdot. Here's mine: 1. Google - I still remember the first postings about their search engine and how awesome it was compared to everything else when I first tried it out back in the mid 90's. 2. RootServers, a startup that sold colo'd linux boxes and would give you root--a big deal back in the mid 90's. I saw their ad on /. and was surprised that they were based in my hometown. They later morphed into Rackspace, which has been my employer for the last five years! 3. Mac OS X. I remember the early posts about Rhapsody, which encouraged me to go buy a Mac at the just-opened second-ever Apple Store in DC. Been a Mac user ever since. I'm sure there's more...