Slash (Slashdot-Like Automated Storytelling Homepage) is a content management system, originally created for Slashdot, one of the oldest collaborative sites on the Internet. Slash is often incorrectly called Slashcode,[citation needed] which was the name of the project's web site.
Slash is a set of modules, plugins and applets — scripts or programs executed by the server — written in Perl.[1]
History
Early versions of Slash were written by Rob Malda, founder of Slashdot, in the spring of 1998. Andover.net bought Slashdot in June 1999.[2] Work was done by Brian Aker, Patrick Galbraith and Chris Nandor, resulting in version 2 of the software, released in 2001.[citation needed] Until 2009, Slash was maintained by Jamie McCarthy and Chris Nandor, among others. The original codebase was abandoned in September 2009.[citation needed]
Rehash remains primarily under the GNU General Public License and anyone can contribute to development.[3]
SoylentNews
SoylentNews is a fork of Slashdot using a 2009 fork of the Slashdot engine, it covers political extremists.[4] Michael Casadevall (NCommander), is a New York Ubuntu core developer,[5] and SoylentNews Public Benefit Corporation (SN PBC) president.[6][7][8][9][10]
References
- ^ Chromatic; Aker, Brian; Krieger, David (January 2002). Running Weblogs with Slash. Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media. ISBN 0596001002.
- ^ Malda, Rob (1999-06-29). "Slashdot Acquired by Andover.net". Slashdot.
- ^ "README". Rehash. GitHub. 2020-01-14. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ^ "SoylentNews FAQ". SoylentNews. Retrieved 2019-01-26.
- ^ https://xii.hope.net/speakers.html
- ^ https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=1
- ^ https://casadevall.pro/about/
- ^ https://www.f6s.com/michaelcasadevall
- ^ https://thenewstack.io/35-years-later-a-retro-computing-enthusiast-puts-windows-1-back-to-work/
- ^ https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-casadevall-a7622312
External links
- Slashcode: The Slash Open Source Project at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-04-15) — archive of former official site, inactive after 2009
- Slash on SourceForge — historical copy of Slash source code
- slashcode on GitHub — historical SoylentNews copy of Slash source code imported from SourceForge in 2009
- rehash on GitHub — SoylentNews Rehash code since 2009