If you are of a certain age and have been developing for the web for long enough, you will recognize a lot of the details in CmdrTaco's meditation on the beginnings of Slashdot on its 20th birthday, from watching the output of tailing your Apache referrers log in amazement, to the Kai's Power Tools drop shadow on the logos. Good times! (Too bad he doesn't mention that the whole thing was built in Perl.)