CmdrTaco added logins in 98 but they didn't go public until August 98. (I read his history and I believe the month was August.)

At any rate, he allowed the hoi polloi to get logins, which was great except I had worked all night pulling cable, came home at six, and then I had to do a bunch of crap with my girlfriend and by the time I had recovered (the next day) and was reading my /. email and I had missed the addition by two hours the day before.

So all I got was this crappy number... but I'm pretty sure we're remembering the same event. Damned if I can find mention of it in the archives.

Of course - wait for it - the site was old hat at that point.

max
['But now I have a Linux-controlled walker to get around with!']

So I log into slashdot (as opposed to not loggin in per usual) to read a story about slashdot being like, old, and wind up reading a story about Hemos talking about media niches and I stumble across Stirling commenting.

max
['Cap'n! The warp engines can't take this level of meta niche collision much longer!']

I'd think you'd prefer to use Lucifer.

max
['Although that could be... painful.']