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25 Years Ago Today: Slashdot Parodied by Suck.com - Slashdot


25 Years Ago Today:  Slashdot Parodied by Suck.com - Slashdot

There were no hard feelings. Seven months later Slashdot was even linking to Greg Knauss's Suck.com essay proclaiming that "Mozilla is dead, or might as well be..."

So whatever happened to Suck.com? Though it stopped publishing in 2001, an outpouring of nostalgia in 2005 apparently prompted its owners at Lycos.com to continue hosting its content through 2018. (This unofficial history notes that one fan scrambling to archive the site was Aaron Swartz.) Though it's not clear what happened next, here in 2024 its original domain is now up for sale -- at an asking price of $1 million.

But all of Suck.com's original content is still available online -- including its Suckdot parody -- at archive.org. Which, mercifully, is still here a full 28 years after launching in 1996...

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