I was very impressed when I saw that Slashdot is one of few sites to have maintained redirects from all the way back (well, almost; they didn't include the CGI links from 1998! [0]). But I thought it'd be more interesting to see how it all looked back then, both with the old site design and because the comment sort changed when they added the display controls around late 2001, which shuffled comments from old stories and broke up threads that were mostly in sequence before.

Trivia: This story predates the meta-moderation system (introduced around 1999-09; story from 1999-02). Notable also that the comment sort today remains unchanged from 2001.

[0] http://slashdot.org/slashdot.cgi?mode=article&artnum=427

Edit: I wondered about 'late 2001' and looked into it a bit. The 9/11 traffic spike was very close (CmdrTaco on how they handled it [1]), but Wayback shows the threshold control was present already in August.

[1] https://slashdot.org/articles/01/09/13/154222.shtml