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  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Slashdot started in 1997 and was sold to Andover.net in 1999, in the midst of a lot of early Linux people making a butt-ton of money (on paper, anyway) via the VALinux IPO.

    VALinux, amusingly enough, eventually morphed into ThinkGeek and was later bought by Gamestop, an entity about which much has been written …

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      1 year ago

      There was another change in control of it in the early oughts I thought. Maybe not ownership but whomever was running the site changed.