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Slashdot. The technical discussions, the flamewars, dumping on Jon Katz, William Gibson vs. Neal Stephenson, using the web as a primary source of news on 09-11-2001. Posting as user #41803.

https://m.slashdot.org/story/31348



Slashdot was fun... But then somehow it stopped to be. Not sure even what happened.

Posting as user 1XXX :)


I have a few theories... :)


What do you think were the two biggest reasons? How do you think it could have turned out differently to still have a site today with the same spirit?


The man the myth the legend!


When CmdrTaco left the site changed.


bow


Good times. I frequent box.sk for hacker type info too.




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