Slash (Slashdot-Like Automated Storytelling Homepage) is a

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, originally created for

Slashdot ''Slashdot'' (sometimes abbreviated as ''/.'') is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". It features news stories on science, technology, and politics that are submitted and evaluated by site ...

, one of the oldest collaborative sites on the Internet. Slash has also been known as Slashcode. Slash is a set of modules, plugins and applets — scripts or programs executed by the server — written in

Perl Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Though Perl is not officially an acronym, there are various backronyms in use, including "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language". Perl was developed ...

History

Early versions of Slash were written by

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, founder of Slashdot, in the spring of 1998. Andover.net bought Slashdot in June 1999. Rehash remains primarily under the

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and anyone can contribute to development.

SoylentNews

SoylentNews is a

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of Slashdot using a 2009 fork of the Slashdot engine. Michael Casadevall (''NCommander''), is a former New York Ubuntu core developer, and SoylentNews Public Benefit Corporation (SN PBC) president. On 22 May 2023 NCommander announced that SoylentNews will be shutting down on 30 June of that year. However, the decision was reversed in an announcement made on 5 June 2023.

References

External links

* — archive of former official site, inactive after 2009 * — historical copy of Slash source code * — historical SoylentNews copy of Slash source code imported from SourceForge in 2009 * {{github, SoylentNews/rehash — SoylentNews Rehash code since 2009 1998 software Blog software Content management systems Free content management systems Free software programmed in Perl Website management Slashdot