Ars Technica: Anonymous “Anonymous Cowards” are, for now, not welcome on Slashdot . “On August 9, tech news aggregator Slashdot quietly removed one of its earliest features, which had been available to all visitors since its founding in 1997: the ability to post comments as an ‘Anonymous Coward.’ And while the feature returned within five days, it returned in a largely nerfed format.”
Slashdot is 20 years old, so an intrepid reader created a tool that finds a random story on Slashdot and displays it. I ran it three times and got: a story about Verizon and yet another fee (2016), a story on the world’s largest scavenger hunt (2002), and a story about Motorola phones from 2013. Nostalgia for days.
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