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July 24, 2006
"The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch, and a user with an idea."
In lieu of a real post tonight...
A geek moment.
So last Friday night, I left a party early so I could get home and watch Stargate—
—no, hold on, it gets geekier.—So I'm sitting at home alone on a Friday night—
—no, not yet—and I decide to Google myself—
—patience! even more geekiness ahead!—
—and I discover that I once submitted a link to Slashdot—wait, almost there—
—and I submitted this link to Slashdot in June of 1998.
And there we go. We have joy. Maximum geekitude attained.
Yes, when I was 15 years old, how did I spend my summer vacation? Apparently, submitting links to maps of the internet to Slashdot, that's how.
Plus, think about it: 1998. Slashdot hadn't even been around for a year yet, according to Wikipedia. This was before Jon Katz forever sullied the site. Over a half a year before the "Slashdot Effect" was coined...did they even have a user registration system or comment ratings back then?
Posted by Jon Rubin at July 24, 2006 11:30 PM
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Hmm. Posts prior to 1999 don't seem to have retained their comments - though Ask Slashdot made its appearance early in 1998. I wonder if Slashdot was running low on disk space?
Posted by: Ryan at July 25, 2006 03:06 PM