[oliyoung]

> at least a couple hundred comments.

for context, that's when a "a couple hundred comments" was as big as "a couple of thousand/tens of thousands" of comments is now.

Slashdot was the centre of the (tech) internet for a long time.

[kstrauser]

Definitely. Given how much smaller the Internet was at the time, a lot of the people actually making the Internet -- Linux developers, webmasters, hardware designers, network protocol authors, etc. -- were packed into that one amazing forum and debating what to do next. It was amazing in its heyday.