Recap: Slashdot 10th Anniversary Party - Blue Chalk Cafe
By coincidence, we ended up being the house band for Slashdot's 10th anniversary party last night at the Blue Chalk Cafe in Palo Alto. I am a longtime Slashdot reader. I have been around since the beginning in late 1997, so it was a pleasure for me to be part of the event. (My Slashdot reader's name is Brindle and my ID is in around 8500.)
I think Slashdot was one of the pioneers of the weblog. I am sure they are the first website that I came across that used this format. At the time it was unique, in that it provided a rich source of information in a single location and gave the reader the ability to participate by posting comments. It was also nice because the moderators filtered the stories and provided their own often humorous or insightful comments.
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The weblog proved to be an effective information dissemination tool. It was my main source of information during the 9/11 events. Other new sites were non-functional under the crush of people trying to get information. Slashdot was able to deliver timely updates during this time. In large part because they designed their system and were able to make necessary modifications to Slashcode.
Weblogs are common on most news sites now, and there are companies out there that can provide the bandwith to handle very large numbers of users. Times have changed... But I still check the slashdot website for the latest tech related news stories and post an occasional comment from time to time.
Long live slashdot!