Rob Malda Reflects On The Past 10 Years

Slashdot. Whether you love it or hate it, there’s no denying the effect it has had on news websites, and the internet in general. It’s hard to believe the monster it has become, and it was all started as a joke… a casual site that wasn’t supposed to go anywhere. Wired gave Rob Malda a phone call to help reflect on the past ten years, and posted the interview today.

When I registered the domain name it was supposed to be a joke, and I wanted an e-mail address that wasn’t my college’s e-mail. The website was built out of my blog — though they didn’t call them blogs back then — because I wanted to have a web server I could Perl and hack around on. There was no premeditation, and it was three or four months before I realized Slashdot meant anything.

Source: Wired.com