Slashdot is 10 years old

[yesthattom]

Slashdot is 10 years old. For years they have been my primary tech news source.

They’re still the top place I go for news. Millions of visitors agree every day. So many people read it that when they mention a web site it gets overloaded with people visiting it. This is now known as “the slashdot effect”. In fact, the day they mentioned my first book got reviewed there the Amazon rank immediately shot up to the Top 10 and stayed there for 2 days.

The site is unabashedly geeky. It’s a URL that can not be read over the phone without great trouble (”No! h, t, t, p, colon, slash, slash, then the word slash, the word dot, then dot. No... not dot. dot!! Arrrrgh!) because real geeks cut and paste their URLs and never need to actually say them. (If I recall, they used to not display their home page if you tried to include the “www.” since real geeksites don’t need that.)

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[also-huey.livejournal.com]

Although it doesn't look like it's survived one of the last site redesigns, Chris Wright's Apostrophecolon (http://web.archive.org/web/20060627170530/http://ubersoft.net/features/apostrophecolon/index.html) (LGT archive.org) is, in my opinion, as good as the original.

[lusty.livejournal.com]

I had someone in IT at a former company ask me to add DNS entries for a "www" form of every single url they published, because "everybody puts www in front". I refused.