* Home of community-driven content celebrates 10 years of tech news * More than 80,000 stories posted over the past decade
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 24, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- 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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