Slashdot was a great distraction before twitter, digg, reddit, facebook, googleplus.. :)

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Yup - we're saving $180k/year on a Sun support contract by keeping spares of all the 6+ year old SPARC equipment we have in production.

My first slashdot password was the same as my dialup account, a randomly capitalised word + number.