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Nov 2017
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157. Rob Malda (@cmdrtaco) on SlashDot a...

Brian McCullough
About this episode
You might know him as Rob Malda, or you might know him as CmdrTaco, but he was the founder of the great geek social website Slashdot. Slashdot recently turned 20 years old, Rob commemorated this in a great Medium post, and so I reached out to him to tell us the story of one of the first great social media websites.

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