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barkingtoad
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A Pre-History of Slashdot
User #333 here. Back in the day, someone offered me oral sex for the low user number. What a perfect metaphor for the dot-com era: offering to wildly overpay for a social media asset that would eventually turn out to be useless.
dotancohen
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But if course you wouldn't have taken the offer, /.ers never have sex. That would require leaving mom's basement!
devrandomguy
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They could do it in ASCII, on IRC.
cisanti
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How do you know the proposal was real!? :)
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