I skipped Fark, but my progression is largely the same. Once in a blue moon, I still visit Slashdot. It's like checking up on an ex to see how they're doing.
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Slashdot -> kuro5hin -> reddit -> Lemmy for me.
Any old k5ers on here?
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Put BBS discussion boards, FidoNet groups, and Usenet out front and drop Fark for my path. Along with a variety of standalone forums and random stuff that never went anywhere, of course :) (yes, I'm old!)
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Slashdot in its heyday was great. Then that sale happened. Somehow I ended up skipping Fark and Digg.
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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Finally more people moving to fediverse
Not going back too far, mine was IRC > Slashdot > FuckedCompany > Fark> 4chan > Reddit > Digg > back to Reddit lol > Lemmy
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I'd need to shoehorn the Something Awful forums in there somewhere between Fark and Digg.
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That's funny because I've seen some people on Reddit say they're going to use Fark instead after the controversy. I guess old sites just don't die.
I still visit Slashdot pretty regularly, but I make it a point to avoid the comments section.
I had the same journey but I'm pretty sure I found Slashdot by way of boingboing which I found by way of Diesel Sweeties blog posts when I first got a DSL connection in 2002 and was looking for comics and blogs to fill up my trendy new RSS reader lol