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* [http://twit.tv/floss3 CmdrTaco interview] on the FLOSS [[Podcast]] |
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* [http://tivate.com/interviews/rob-malda Interview with Rob Malda a.k.a. CmdrTaco - Tech News OG] on Tivate.com, May 2008 |
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Revision as of 06:16, 4 June 2008
Rob Malda (born May 10, 1976), also known as CmdrTaco, is the founder of the website Slashdot. He is a graduate of Hope College and Holland Christian High School.
His moniker originates in the Dave Barry book Claw Your Way to the Top: How to Become the Head of a Major Corporation in Roughly a Week (ISBN 0878576525). 'Commander Taco' is the final entry in a list of bad restaurants for business lunches.[citation needed]
In 1997 Rob Malda and Jeff Bates created Slashdot while undergraduates of Hope College [1]. After running the site for two years on a shoestring [2], they sold the site to Andover.net, which was later acquired by VA Linux Systems [3]. Malda now runs the site out of the SourceForge, Inc. office in Dexter, MI [4].
Rob Malda also writes a monthly column for Computer Power User. His article is titled "The Department of Stuff" and has titles like adwords.txt and goodblog.txt. According to his magazine bio, "He spends his time fiddling with electronic gizmos, wandering the 'Net, watching anime, and trying to think of clever lies to put in his bio so that he seems cooler than he actually is." (CPU Magazine)
Malda is also infamous for his dismissive description of Apple Computer's then newly introduced iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."[5] This quote has often been used to illustrate the gulf between Slashdot's "techno-elite" and ordinary computer users.
On Valentine's Day of 2002, Malda proposed to Kathleen Fent using the front page of Slashdot and she said yes.[6]. They were married on December 8, 2002 in Las Vegas, Nevada.[7] They currently have one child, Zachary, who was born in August, 2007.[8][9]
References
- ^ "Attack of the Blogs". Holland Sentinel. September 7, 2004.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Cmdrtaco on Slashdot Sale". Wired.com. June 29, 1999.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "VA Linux buys Andover.Net". news.com. February 3, 2000.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Slashdot Supremacy". spectrum.ieee.org. November 2007.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Apple releases iPod". Slashdot. October 23 , 2001. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Kathleen Fent Read This Story
- ^ "News from Hope College" (PDF). February 2003. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
- ^ "Rob Malda Answers Your Questions". Slashdot. October 12, 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "The History of Slashdot Part 4 - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow". Slashdot. October 31 , 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
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External links
- Personal homepage
- "Taco Hell"
- CmdrTaco's Slashdot.org profile page
- Marriage proposal Slashdot story
- Computer Power User Magazine Homepage
- CmdrTaco interview on the FLOSS Podcast
- CmdrTaco@Everything2.com CmdrTaco's Super Node Of Nuttiness
- Interview with Rob Malda a.k.a. CmdrTaco - Tech News OG on Tivate.com, May 2008