{"id":232085,"date":"2017-10-06T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T09:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=232085"},"modified":"2017-10-06T12:00:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T10:00:54","slug":"slashdot-turns-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/232085-slashdot-turns-20.html","title":{"rendered":"Slashdot turns 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;news for nerds&#8221; tech site <a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Slashdot<\/strong><\/a> has turned 20.<\/p>\n<p>Slashdot founder Rob Malda posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.freecodecamp.org\/a-pre-history-of-slashdot-6403341dabae\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;pre-history&#8221; of Slashdot<\/strong><\/a> on Medium to mark the 20th birthday, where he recalls how it all started.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I registered the domain name Slashdot.org 20 years ago today. I really had no idea,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was early in the days of the Web. The notion of a blog was years away, so I wrote my own code. I didn\u2019t have huge ambitions, so I stored the data in flat text files loaded from scratch, on every\u2026 single\u2026 page\u2026 view. I knew this was grotesquely inefficient, but again, I had no idea what was coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Malda said rapid change soon followed, and traffic &#8220;soon created real expenses requiring hardware, colocation, and advertising&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The years that followed were a blurry mix of victories and failures as Slashdot grew from a hobby to a real business. The work was messy, complicated, hard\u2026 and especially for the first decade\u2026 thrilling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Malda said today he does not know a single person who has anything to do with Slashdot, following its sale and Malda leaving the company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To say I have complicated feelings about what Slashdot is in 2017 is an understatement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/232019-the-pirate-bay-blocked-by-major-dutch-isps.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Pirate Bay blocked by major Dutch ISPs<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;news for nerds&#8221; tech site Slashdot has turned 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":232091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[46519,35161],"class_list":["post-232085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-rob-malda","tag-slashdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232093,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232085\/revisions\/232093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}