Nerdcore Is Dead (Long Live Nerdcore) (youtube.com) 35
The Original High-C writes: Dear Commander Taco,
I hope you are well, as the world is increasingly 'mid', as the kids say. I am the guy whose story you published 17 years ago about a nerd rap compilation. We had a wild ride, as documented in this, um, documentary on Amazon Prime.
Long after anyone stopped caring, I finally released my first free-as-in-beer album. This song tells the story of the ultimate demise of the scene, and I felt it was a fitting bookend for our first chapter. Maybe 2.0 will be better? Thanks for all you did for us, if no one ever told you before.
Sincerely,
The Original High-C
I hope you are well, as the world is increasingly 'mid', as the kids say. I am the guy whose story you published 17 years ago about a nerd rap compilation. We had a wild ride, as documented in this, um, documentary on Amazon Prime.
Long after anyone stopped caring, I finally released my first free-as-in-beer album. This song tells the story of the ultimate demise of the scene, and I felt it was a fitting bookend for our first chapter. Maybe 2.0 will be better? Thanks for all you did for us, if no one ever told you before.
Sincerely,
The Original High-C
Wow, time flies (Score:2, Interesting)
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Maybe whipslash will forward the email to Taco, since he won't see it otherwise.
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2 years is an eternity in Internet time.
Slashdot it self is a bit of distortion field there; because its one of the few places that does not change often and the SAME people hang round to comment.
Its like the news groups of old, well not really but in that specific aspect it is.
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The most you can say is he submitted a story (your link) to this site in 2021 - a story promoting the work of another Slashdot alum. There hasn't been any indication that Taco's read the site since 2009... when he responded to someone's comment about a site bug.
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Old Slashdot was far more influential. (Score:2)
Why are the staff not returning it to the ways of old?
This is not a rhetorical question.
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Re:Old Slashdot was far more influential. (Score:5, Informative)
The original staff is, from best I can tell, no longer involved. They sold it to the same holding company that owns Sourceforge and similar properties and walked from Editor status way back in 2011.
Slashdot is from the pre-blog era. Yeah, since before blogs. Before "social media" was a thing, from the era of IRC, AIM, usenet... Since before massive "forum" or discussion sites took hold (like reddit). None of that stuff existed when it was common for slashdot to "slashdot" a site by linking to it.
It was the era of "wearable" computers the size of a matchbox from Stanford, of inane Jon Katz editorializing and Oog the caveman - and eventually, Hot Grits.
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I must admit, we seemed to be on the verge of some significant enshittification (beta) things could've been worse.
We probably make enough to keep the lights on, but these days it's not enough to be in the black, you have to be sufficiently juicy or you get cut for... being a distraction or something?
Anyway, for all the "who cares" people sang about reddit it'd be a shame for the user-built knowledge/etc in these halls to disappear.
Re:Old Slashdot was far more influential. (Score:5, Interesting)
+1
I have been reading slashdot for ages and I still remember the great excitement with which I read a post many years ago on how someone had built a basic website serving a few html pages using just a tiny PIC microcontroller. Those were the days when I was just coming to know of existence of such small microcontrollers. Reading through slashdot always relaxes me and yet in the process I add to my knowledge and an appreciation of many commenters on their thorough in-depth knowledge and variety of thoughts they bring in. I do hope it will continue to live for many many more years.
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...and SuperKendall had yet to be born.
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Re: Old Slashdot was far more influential. (Score:2)
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Slashdot, much like alligators and sharks, is well-adapted to its environs and requires no modifications.
Or not.
Like the log in the swamp that suddenly opens its eyes, I've just discovered nerdcore and am content.
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Why are the staff not returning it to the ways of old?
This is not a rhetorical question.
When it comes to influence, we used to be able to easily cause a phenomenon called The Slashdot Effect.
Probably couldn't do that today even if we tried regardless of bandwidth. That is due to a combination of a smaller user base here, and the reason for it; a lot more competition.
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Yes, but mostly only against small personal sites or single server small company web pages, etc.
Re: Old Slashdot was far more influential. (Score:1)
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Well, back when we could Slashdot A Site! I doubt there was nearly as much load balancing going on or even any realistic DDOS protection like we have now.
I imagine even if we had the same numbers as back then, we wouldn't be able to Slashdot a site anymore.
And let's be honest. How many of us just read the summary and pop down to the forum instead of actually clicking the link? We use to actual RTFA.
Weird Al enters the chat (Score:3)
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It's all about the Pentiums, baby!
(which grammatically is very much in line with Tom Lehrer's "Fight Fiercely, Harvard")
Nerdcore could rise up... (Score:5, Insightful)
I went to a couple of nerdcore shows back in the heyday. It's kind of weird looking back on it now, a lot of it was just novelty music, and has aged poorly besides. But there were also some legitimately gifted lyricists. (MC Frontalot comes to mind.)
We don't really need nerdcore like we did 20 years ago. Hip-hop has expanded so much. It's not weird to see a white guy rapping anymore, or for a rapper to drop Pokemon or Star Wars references. With all the weirdo rappers out now, the "novelty" part of nerdcore isn't so novel anymore. Overall, that's a good thing. A skilled rapper no longer has to strictly represent some idealized image of the gangster (or nerd).
Well, a lot of them still think they do, but there are so many counterexamples now of people who have found success without doing that.
ROFLCOPTER (Score:1)
I finally released my first free-as-in-beer album. ... it was a fitting bookend
OMG I needed a good laugh, like... wow, just wow, dude... that's sooooo nerdcore, like, wait, what's a nerd again?
The death of dorkcore.
Deja vu (Score:2)
Even better - we will be able to enjoy the nostalgia again later this week when our glorious editors post this story again.
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