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I remember...I remember...Posted Jan 24, 2013 5:09 UTC (Thu) by kena (guest, #2735)Parent article: Fifteen years of LWN
Printing out the weekly edition -- along with the week's worth of Freshmeat that you used to put out. I'd learn about some new facet or other -- be it a journaling FS, or whether the kernel should use BitKeeper or not. It was all so daring -- even exciting. A *nix-based OS was really beginning to make inroads! I think it is safe to say that LWN has offered an awesome platform both for the dissemination of FOSS info, but also for us to comment on the stories, and learn from the others in its fantastic userbase. I remember despairing -- if understanding -- your decision to pull the plug, followed shortly by my elation that that would not be required.
Keep up the fantastic work, Jon, and everyone else. I look forward to n more years of LWN!
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I remember... Posted Jan 24, 2013 20:46 UTC (Thu) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736) [Link]
Oh, hey, I was the person who joined LWN right after you, neat!
I wonder how many of the early subscribers are still around?
I remember... Posted Jan 24, 2013 23:20 UTC (Thu) by nas (subscriber, #17) [Link]
Still here. Congratulations the the LWN crew!
I remember... Posted Jan 25, 2013 1:14 UTC (Fri) by kena (guest, #2735) [Link]
Wow. *Right* after. That is funny. Honestly, I gotta think LWN turnover is lower than most sites: we are here because there is simply nothing nearly as good in its particular market segment. I'm no kernel hacker, but reading Jon's kernel column is top-notch stuff, and the signal:noise ratio in comments is almost always very, very good. Hell -- I would even go so far as to say LWN played a role in Samba4 finally shipping.
Throw in some Grumpy Editor reviews, top-notch staffers and other contributors, and why would folks like us ever leave? ;-)
-Ken D'Ambrosio
I remember... Posted Jan 25, 2013 19:56 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Quite so. There *are* things I'd spend my money on before I spent it on LWN, but that's things like food, heat, power, and network service -- things without which an LWN subscription is useless.
I remember... Posted Feb 5, 2013 23:23 UTC (Tue) by Baylink (subscriber, #755) [Link]
I have a 4 digit Slashdot user number, and a 3 digit Metafilter one; forget where I am here. :-P
And for me, that childhood experience was "can I have some of that [vodka martini]?"
Only part I liked was the olives... which is still true today (I'm a rum and bourbon drinker now, when I drink at all, which is rare).
Happy Anniversary, Jon and Company! Keep up the good work.
I remember... Posted Feb 5, 2013 23:52 UTC (Tue) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75) [Link] I think the user ID system came a few years after the site started, so the ordering of low numbers is more a result of who happened to get there early on the day signups started than who has been here for the absolute longest. That's the only way I can explain having such a low number. I have obviously been here for a long time, but certainly not since anywhere close to day one.
I remember... Posted Feb 5, 2013 23:58 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] User ID's started at 1 (which some selfish insider naturally snarfed) when the "new" site code was first deployed in June, 2002. Some of the lowest numbers belong to members of the Quixote mailing list who helped us test the code before we switched over; after that, it's just a matter of who created accounts first. We didn't expose them for some years, but they have existed for as long as this version of the site has.
I remember... Posted Feb 1, 2013 12:36 UTC (Fri) by ajmacleod (guest, #1729) [Link]
This was me, too - I used to print out the one page edition for reading on the train home on Fridays. Funnily enough I was "tidying" old stuff on my hard disk the other day and came across one of those LWN pages, from 1999. It was probably more interesting reading it the second time round, with all these years of hindsight!
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