Slashdot Celebrates Ten Years

PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 24, 2007 – MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,  -- Slashdot (http:// slashdot.org), part of SourceForge, Inc. (Nasdaq:LNUX), the web site  that pioneered community-generated content, will celebrate its tenth  anniversary on October 25, 2007. To celebrate the anniversary,  Slashdot is hosting a free event at Palo Alto's Blue Chalk Bistro,  where members of the community can meet the site's founders and  editorial team.

The tech community news site, started in 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda  with Jeff "Hemos" Bates, has grown to an Internet phenomenon in its  10 year run. Slashdot features stories submitted by readers and  posted by a dedicated Slashdot editorial board. The site serves as a  water cooler for a generation of technophiles and established the  model for today's changing media landscape. In August 2007, Slashdot  launched a new feature called Firehose that allows subscribers a  glimpse into the submission process normally only seen by Slashdot's  editors.

"Nobody's more surprised than I am that we've reached the ten year  mark," said Rob Malda, Slashdot co-founder. "But we saw what people  wanted, and gave it to them before anyone else did."

Stories on the site range from technical to bizarre, falling under  the site's trademarked motto News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.  Slashdot's popularity regularly overpowers its featured websites,  causing many to experience the "Slashdot effect," where the  unexpected and overwhelming traffic slows or temporarily shuts down  the linked-to site.

Malda has been posting insights and highlights on Slashdot's origins  throughout the month on the site, including:

 Links to the navel-gazing brief history of Slashdot:   http://meta.slashdot.org/meta/07/10/02/1553218.shtml   http://meta.slashdot.org/meta/07/10/10/1445216.shtml   http://meta.slashdot.org/meta/07/10/17/1412245.shtml   Most bizarre story broken on Slashdot:   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/14/143254   Top most visited stories and most active stories on Slashdot:   http://slashdot.org/hof.shtml   Photos of CmdrTaco and Hemos:   http://cmdrtaco.net/rob.shtml   http://web.sourceforge.com/company/mgmt_jeff_bates.php

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