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I still visit /., I just avoid the comments because its 4chan-y in there. My first /. account was created in 1997.

What I like about /. interface is that there is a summary under each article, and there are only ~10 articles on the main page, and I find the topics more focused on what I'm interested in.

HN is just a flood of random stuff and I'm usually only interested in ~10% of what's on the front page, compared to 80% of /. front page. HN needs channels.

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Public user accounts on slashdot were created in 1998 :)

Ha! Awesome. Thanks Cmdr. Yeah that was 25ish years ago, as I said in a different post I was living abroad for a year that spanned 1997 into 1998. I was off by a few months apparently.

How can you tell when your account was created? I know I was reading it pre 9/11 but can't find an "account created on" page.

There's this thing called "human memory", heard of it? :) Kidding. It is easy for me because I was living in Porto for a year and I chose my username to be the street my apartment was on.

If you go to Achievements in your profile, there is one for years read, which shows a date that I assume is the account creation date.

Correction: Doing the math, it looks like the date on which the achievement was earned, so subtract off the years read from the date to get account creation date.

Doesn't work for mine. I just have "Days Read" (no "Years Read"). My "Days Read" is a small number and dated 2009, but I was posting comments in 2007. All of my achievements are from 2009.

In the early culture your slashdot id # of digits was bragging rights, at the time I was proud of my 6 digit, but the culture there is very toxic now and all it means is I was older or an earlier "lucky 10000". Status seeking is a childish endeavour, but in my defense I was a child.

You must be new here...

My 10 years read is in 2003, which would mean I started reading in 1993, but Slashdot says they only started in 1997.

I do have an id in the 7x,xxx range. Not sure if I can work much out from that.

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