In 1997, the name Slashdot was cool, because most people really weren't familiar with the idea of web addresses: we'd tell them to go to "slash slash slash-dot dot org" and their eyes would glaze over ...

In the modern responsive Web Three Point Oh Internet, Slashdot stands like a thing frozen in time—it’s a coelacanth stuck incongruously in an aquarium full of more colorful fish. The technology news ...

Dice Holdings Inc. — owners of career website Dice — have purchased Geeknet’s three media properties: Slashdot, SourceForge, and Freecode. Dice Holdings Inc. — owners of career website Dice — have ...

Slashdot, a tech-news website founded way back in 1997, just updated its look and functionality with a new beta version launched this month. Slashdot—which founder Rob Malda named to have an ...

Recently Slashdot announced the websites third redesign in its thirteen year lifespan, and TweakTown was invited over to take a look at the new diggs. This morning I was given a personal walkthrough ...

*This is an interesting resignation statement specifically because the guy built his own means of production and information. *He's leaving, not because the hardware is old-fashioned and outdated, but ...

The Sputnik launch isn't the only big anniversary this month; Slashdot is celebrating, too. The influential "news for nerds" site famous for swamping unsuspecting websites with boatloads of traffic ...

Ten years ago this morning, Slashdot founder Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda, foregoing the traditional bended-knee, used his insider access to one of the tech world’s most prominent public forums to issue a ...

Nearly five years ago, a 21-year-old computer-science nerd named Rob Malda made his first postings on a Web site known as Slashdot. Little did he know at the time--those messages marked the beginning ...

"News for Nerds" Web site Slashdot.org has joined the dark side, lining up with leagues of other Net publishers to start selling larger, more imposing advertisements and placing a premium on ...