Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents

October marks 10 friggin years of Slashdot, and nobody is more surprised about any of this than me. Throughout the month we'll be running a series of navel gazing meta news articles about our history, infrastructure and plans for the future. We're also going to give away 500 t-shirts and ThinkGeek gift certificates to people willing to organize and attend their own local Slashdot parties. One lucky winner will get a cool grand to blow at ThinkGeek! I'm going to attend "official" gatherings in Ann Arbor, MI on Oct 20 and in Palo Alto, CA on Oct 25. But you can read on for details about party organization and how you can win the grand prize.

The idea is simple. Visit the Slashdot Anniversary Party Web Page. You can sign up to attend a party, or if there's nobody hosting near you, you can create your own. The details of your local parties are up to you- each has a corresponding discussion so you can work it out amongst yourselves. The Ann Arbor gathering will be at a bar because dammit I'm old and don't have time to go out for beers much these days. But you do whatever works for the folks in your area. Dorm Room. Bar. Gym. Wherever several Slashdot readers gather, we shall attempt to mail shirts until we run out.

To be eligible for schwag, you need to schedule your party by Oct 8 and sign up to attend a party by Oct 9- this will give us time to figure out where to send the shirts, and time to send them before you all start partying naked during the official party window of Oct 19-28.

As for the one thousand dollar ThinkGeek Gift Certificate grand prize, the winner will be the party attendee who submits the coolest thing for our "scrapbook". Videos. Pictures. Songs. Anything you can email. Something that proves that your party was the one we all wish we were at. The deadline for submissions will be Oct 28. We'll have an official submission email address posted later. This is all about creativity and coolness so good luck with that. The grand prize winner will be posted on Oct 31, the end of the month when we can all forget that any of this ever happened.

Oh, and happy birthday to us. Here's to wasting another decade, same as the first.

One has to ask...

[Cleon]

So when was the first "First Post" post?

The first "all your base are belong to us?"

The first "in Soviet Russia" joke?

The first time someone imagined a Beowulf cluster?

Ah, ten years of Slashdot cliches. Here's to ten more, you crazy nerds. :)

party time? think again.

[UnCivil Liberty]

Who wants to go to a party with no girls?

Re:wow

[Surt]

Cool, I don't think i've ever had a slashdot editor comment in one of my threads before. I feel like my original post was even more of an accomplishment now. :-)
http://slashdot.org/~Surt/journal/183407 [slashdot.org]

Re:wow

[sterwill]

Rob contributed the 1-digit spot, so I'll fill the 3-digit spot. I guess I could have registered a little earlier, but I didn't post much back then (and don't now).

Re:Parties...

[xtracto]

- Will that involve a Halo3 multiplayer setup?
- Real Doll giveaways
- Coke, Beer, Pizza, and cookies?

Halo? Coke? what world are you living in uh?

Mountain dew, D&D ... and I suppose that by real dolls you mean real *plastic* dolls dont you ?

please hand your geek card at exit...

More professional editing?

[Futurepower(R)]

"Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents"

The only present most of us want from Slashdot is more care in posting stories.

Re:wow

[hcdejong]

You must be new here.

From the original site

[sr180]

The site in its very early days had the following threat for the comment posting system:

If you don't have anything worthwhile to say, don't say it. If people continue to abuse this feature, I will have to remove it.

What I want to know, is does that threat still apply?