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• Ask HN: What are your oldest "online" accounts still in use?

  Probably my Slashdot account from 1999. https://slashdot.org/~DaGoodBoy. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Apple Vision Pro Review: The Best Headset yet Is Just a Glimpse of the Future

  If anyone does not understand the reference, "Slashdot" is a link-sharing site oriented at tech news, that was popular many years ago as HN is today. https://slashdot.org. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?

  It has been a VERY long time since I've done this with `wget`, but here's what I pulled out of my notes. I used to use this to mirror Slashdot when I was travelling for work and had limited/no internet: ```

    wget --ignore-length --no-remove-listing --no-check-certificate --recursive --page-requisites --span-hosts --convert-links --no-verbose --tries=3 --timeout=60 --level=1 --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0...

  - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda – Hacker History Podcast

  My user number on /. Is "404" ( https://slashdot.org/~dmd ). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Adios and thanks for the fishes!

  If I want a real "front page of the Internet" that is web-based, I will head back to https://slashdot.org. Source: 10 months ago

• What was working in IT like in the early 2000s?

  You didn't surf reddit.com back then. Back then it was slashdot.org. Source: 10 months ago

• I don't care about all the buzz words. I just want a Reddit 2.0

  Https://slashdot.org/ is still running, BTW. Source: 11 months ago

• Reminder: DivorcedDads is going dark on June 12th

  First there was Slashdot then then there was Fark and then Dig and then came along Reddit. It offered a unique platform for people of like interest to come together and discuss topics related to that interest. Source: 11 months ago

• Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA

  We should go back to slashdot Https://slashdot.org/. Source: 11 months ago

• Is there any other social media platform that uses democracy (a voting system like Reddit)?

  The Voting mechanic, is not specific to reddit, the oldest platform using it (with the karma system) is slashdot. Tons of website copied that mechanic including reddit. Source: 11 months ago

• Apollo for Reddit is shutting down

  It still exists! https://slashdot.org/. Source: 11 months ago

• Incomplete and Growing List of Participating Subreddits

  I'll be browsing http://fark.com and http://slashdot.org like I did before reddit. Source: 11 months ago

• /r/Bishop will go dark on June 12th in protest of Reddit's change in API policy that will kill 3rd-party Apps

  Maybe I'll just go back to Slashdot... ;). Source: 11 months ago