Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a technology-related news website owned by the US-based company Dice Holdings, Inc. The site, which bills itself as “News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters”, features user-submitted and evaluated news stories about science and technology related topics. Each story has a comments section attached to it. Slashdot was founded in 1997 as a blog, Chips & Dips, by Hope College computer science student Rob Malda, also known as “Commander Taco” and classmate Jeff Bates, also known as “Hemos”.
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