Rob, thank you for Slashdot, it was my first tech forum.

Slashdot is one for the ages. I quit cold when I realized I was a karma addict. It was the first website which I kept open in a tab and hit refresh on.

I also came to love penny arcade and the filthy movie reviews linked off slashdot homepage. Thanks for your effort.

I know you are an active user here, but this comment reminded me those users on Slashdot who would only comment when there is a user id competition (ie. who has the lowest id).

This is why I loved slashdot and now hacker news. You're discussing some technology/framework/... and the local god of the ecosystem drops in and says hi.

What happened to Trove? I signed up for that based on your involvement. Hope you're doing OK.

Your handle looks suspiciously familiar. How's Kathleen doing?

I miss the old Google, back before it got gamed and curated to hell, and it felt like you could find what you wanted to find as long as it was on the net.

I used altavista long after google had become the hip new thing. I liked it, because for certain searches I knew what results I would get back. Which is to say I knew how to look for things I wanted to find.

Google was smarter but seemed less intuitive to me to get at what I wanted.

I do... being able to craft a query that returned _just_ what you wanted and not having to wade thru 10 pages of results because 'page rank' put all the really good stuff on page 5+....

I wish they would enable an advanced mode or something.