Screaming Penguin

agreed on the article and that slashdot launched a hundred thousand sites, but honestly, back when we started discussing setting this up it was about sharing information and about excitement over linux. i dont recall even knowing what slashot was myself. you did the original database/articles thing with a crude admin (yes its possible to be more crude than even the present day tool) and i thought that was cool as hell and ran with it. maybe that original rev was slashdot inspired but i didnt really realize it. back when we started this thing (mid/late 97 i think) was a time when truly only technical people even used the "Internet", much less linux. i know that in 97 i worked for a major company (as a Microsoft/Novell/Network admin) that was just barely getting around to thinking about a website of their own and did not provide internet access at the office (its true, in the "olden" days this was not done, and people got up to change the channels on televisions!). it was mid/late 97 i think when we launched this thing, a time when many had never heard of linux, even though it was then already years old, and those that had were trying to express to people just what it was and why it was important, why it mattered and why it was a viable alternative to other commercial operating systems. VERY FEW believed linux would last back then and no manager at the major company i worked for understood it either, they now offer it on their servers and fully support it. i give props to slashdot, its a great site (although i cant stand to read the damn comments there anymore, its so overwhelmed now and the mod system doesnt really seem to work, the comments there are just asinine 95% of the time) but i dont know that i would call it the inspiration for totsp?