I had the same journey but I'm pretty sure I found Slashdot by way of boingboing which I found by way of Diesel Sweeties blog posts when I first got a DSL connection in 2002 and was looking for comics and blogs to fill up my trendy new RSS reader lol
Do you think this is the end of your "journey"?
Renegade BBSes -> IRC -> slashdot -> digg -> reddit -> imgur -> discord -> mastadon -> lemmy
with plenty of side quests along the way
So we're a side quest then?
Journey Before Destination
Do we have a sub on this side yet?
Not that I've heard of or seen unfortunately
You missed metafilter.
You're missing the precursors:
Email -> Newsgroups -> CGI forums / IRC -> Slashdot... :)
The new Fediverse really is kicking up IRC and newsgroup vibes for this old timer. Its very exciting.
+1 you're right. Especially IRC...oh how I miss those days.
I miss that moment when I became the cool kid in the channel because I had an IRC bouncer
If we're including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols
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