On October 31st, 2007 with 277 comments
Today, on the last day of our 10 year anniversary navel gazing spectacular, I present the final (thank god!) chapter in my 4 part history of Slashdot. I've...
On October 31st, 2007 with 102 comments
From Brisbane to Beunos Aires... From the UK to France to Romania...
from New York to San Francisco and everywhere in between, we had
well over 100s of parties...
On October 30th, 2007 with 119 comments
The Slashdot 10 Year Anniversary Charity Auction for the EFF is at an end and the numbers are in. We are still waiting for payment on one of the six items, but...
On October 29th, 2007 with 86 comments
Today is your last chance to enter the Slashdot 10-Year Anniversary party contest. All you need to do is send pictures, videos, or whatever party evidence you...
On October 26th, 2007 with 151 comments
Today we have Part 2 in our exciting 2 part series about the infrastructure
that powers Slashdot. Last week Uriah told us
all about the
hardware powering the...
On October 22nd, 2007 with 267 comments
If you can imagine working in the office of a school for gifted, troubled, and criminally insane children, inside an international airport, you can get a taste...
On October 19th, 2007 with 273 comments
As part of our 10-Year anniversary coverage, we intend to update our insanely
dated FAQ entry that describes our system setup. Today is Part 1 where we
talk...
On October 17th, 2007 with 126 comments
When we last left off we were in early 1999- Slashdot had a small business behind it,
known as Blockstackers Intergalactic. But we knew that we would need...
On October 15th, 2007 with 327 comments
As part of our 10-Year anniversary, we've decided to have a little charity auction, with the cash going to the EFF. The items currently up for bidding are...
On October 12th, 2007 with 221 comments
Last week hundreds of you posted questions for Slashdot's CmdrTaco, AKA Rob Malda. Today we present his answers to 10 of the highest-moderated questions. CT:...
On October 10th, 2007 with 216 comments
When last we left off, Slashdot had grown beyond my ability to maintain it as a hobby,
as well as beyond the simple DEC Alpha Multia 166 that had served it so...
On October 9th, 2007 with 124 comments
We have 700 T-Shirts coming in today and now we need to know where to ship them. So while you can continue to sign up for parties, today is the last day we'll...
On October 5th, 2007 with 405 comments
We last interviewed CmdrTaco, along with Hemos, in January 2000. Slashdot's 10th anniversary seems like a good time to put Rob back on the hot seat. He's older...
On October 4th, 2007 with 37 comments
Reminder to check for parties in your area.
You can still create new parties through the weekend, but you'll need to RSVP ASAP in order to make your location...
On October 3rd, 2007 with 503 comments
As part of our 10 year anniversary celebration, I've decided to post a
story here
telling the tale of the transition from Chips & Dips to Slashdot back in
1
On October 1st, 2007 with 636 comments
October marks 10 friggin years of Slashdot, and nobody is more surprised
about any of this than me. Throughout the month we'll be running a series
of navel...
On August 20th, 2007 with 164 comments
A few quick notes on some recent code updates. The smaller function is that we've added text messaging stuff for phones. If you visit the messages page (you...
On August 2nd, 2007 with 320 comments
Logged in users have noticed for some time the request to drink from the Slashdot Firehose. Well now we're ready to start having everybody test it out. It's...
On July 19th, 2007 with 100 comments
Slashdot users of the Discussion2 system now have a new 'Update' button visible on their floating control slider, as well at the end of the discussion. This...
On June 27th, 2007 with 248 comments
We have a number of Slashdot features that we've added in recent months
that I've neglected to mention so I wanted to take a moment to share
them with everyone...
On March 12th, 2007 with 157 comments
Thelomen writes "Opera Browser contains an Easter egg that is not widely known, recently reported over at OperaWatch.com: type /. in the address bar and you...
On December 16th, 2006 with 70 comments
wdhowellsr asks: "I am currently setting up a lab that will need to provide me with the ability to test equipment for electronic systems from low voltage DC to...
On November 9th, 2006 with 262 comments
Last night we crossed over 16,777,216 comments in the database. The wise amongst you might note that this number is 2^24, or in MySQLese an unsigned...
On September 14th, 2006 with 421 comments
Discussion2 has been in beta for a few months now on Slashdot. Initially available only
to subscribers, it now should be available to anyone willing to
login...
On May 30th, 2006 with 882 comments
The winner of the contest is Alex Bendiken. He will receive a new laptop as well as bragging rights as the creator of the new look of Slashdot. You can see...
On May 11th, 2006 with 577 comments
A few weeks back I announced that Slashdot was throwing open its design to the readers. An individual will win a Laptop, and hopefully we'll all
win a Slashdot...
On May 10th, 2006 with 339 comments
So, over the years, Rob, as only true friends do, has managed to cause my inbox to explode over the years. Now, it's payback time. That's right, our very own...
On April 26th, 2006 with 587 comments
A few months back we went and redesigned Slashdot with fancy new CSS
templates. The idea was that with a new clean CSS framework under the
skin, we could more...
On April 13th, 2006 with 171 comments
Recently we've added a new bookmark function
that logged in users can use to maintain public lists of URLs for
tagging and sharing with the world. You can...
On April 1st, 2006 with 133 comments
fimion writes "Linus Torvalds seems to be pleased by the new slashdot look. Slashdot has appeased the linux gods! Let us all rejoice on this happy day!" He is...
