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News for nerds since 1997, with tech headlines and threaded comments kept in order by a reader moderation system older than most social networks.
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Slashdot sits in Retro Web under Retro, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Simulated TV channels by decade, old operating systems and the specific texture of an interface designed for a CRT.
Yes. Slashdot is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Slashdot without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Slashdot as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
A proxy that serves archived pages as period browsers expected them, so a 1998 machine can still get online and see 1998.
A shared Unix server where members publish plain HTML pages under their usernames. Started as an experiment in 2014 and still going.
Screenshots of thousands of websites from 1991 onward, arranged so you can watch entire interface conventions appear and die.
A parody desktop that gets progressively stranger the more of its programs you open. Start with the solitaire and keep going.
Listener-funded, advert-free channels out of San Francisco, Drone Zone and Groove Salad among them, going since the dial-up era.
The South Park character maker that has been running since 1999 and still gets updated with props from new episodes.
The original film's promotional site, left online untouched for nearly thirty years and preserved when the sequel arrived.
Gag gift shop selling the same reliable nonsense since the dot-com boom, on a layout that has aged in real time.
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