When I was a computer science student in college, everyone I knew read Slashdot. Founded in 1997, the site was dedicated to "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." It featured about a dozen short, user-submitted stories about the technology news of the day. In most cases, the stories consisted of a short summary and a link to content elsewhere on the Web.
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