Comment on Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For NerdsComments−bernardom13yFor everyone trying to figure out when they signed up: a poster named MyLongNickName linked to some research he did showing which UIDs correlate to which years.http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year−mschaef13yTo take it back a bit further than he goes, I'm 31494 and registered sometime in late 97, early 98.What's interesting about the numbers he presents is that there's a definite increase in growth rate (~2x) around 2008-2009.
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For everyone trying to figure out when they signed up: a poster named MyLongNickName linked to some research he did showing which UIDs correlate to which years.
http://slashdot.org/journal/289875/slashdot-ids-by-year
To take it back a bit further than he goes, I'm 31494 and registered sometime in late 97, early 98.
What's interesting about the numbers he presents is that there's a definite increase in growth rate (~2x) around 2008-2009.