- Rob Malda
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Rob Malda 
Malda at LinuxWorld Boston 2006Born May 10, 1976 Other names CmdrTaco Known for founder of Slashdot Slashdot - Rob Malda (CmdrTaco)
- Jeff Bates (hemos)
- Slashdot effect
Rob Malda (born May 10, 1976. in Holland Michigan), also known as CmdrTaco, is founder and former editor-in-chief of the website Slashdot. He is a graduate of Hope College and Holland Christian High School.
In 1997 Rob Malda and Jeff Bates created Slashdot while undergraduates of Hope College.[1][dead link] 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 ran the site out of the SourceForge, Inc. office in Dexter, Michigan.[4]
Rob Malda also wrote a monthly column for Computer Power User.[5][dead link] In 2002, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[6]
On August 25, 2011, Rob Malda announced his resignation from Slashdot.[7]
Personal life
Malda proposed to longtime girlfriend Kathleen Fent using the front page of Slashdot on February 14th, 2002.[8][9] They were married on December 8, 2002, in Las Vegas, Nevada.[10]
References
- ^ "Attack of the Blogs". Holland Sentinel. September 7, 2004. http://hollandsentinel.com/stories/090704/lif_090704042.shtml.
- ^ "Cmdrtaco on Slashdot Sale". Wired.com. June 29, 1999. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/1999/06/20483.
- ^ "VA Linux buys Andover.Net". news.com. February 3, 2000. http://www.news.com/2100-1001-236456.html.
- ^ Kushner, David (November 2007). "The Slashdot Supremacy". spectrum.ieee.org. http://spectrum.ieee.org/nov07/5639.
- ^ Malda, Rob (October 2009). "The Department of Stuff: Caught In The Web". Computer Power User. http://www.computerpoweruser.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Farchive%2Fc0910%2F50c10%2F50c10.asp. Retrieved 28 August 2009.
- ^ "2002 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 2002. http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/?year=2002. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
- ^ Malda, Rob. "Rob Malda Resigns from Slashdot". Slashdot. http://meta.slashdot.org/story/11/08/25/1245200/Rob-CmdrTaco-Malda-Resigns-From-Slashdot. Retrieved 25 August 2011.
- ^ Avery, Laura; Thomson, Gale (2007). Newsmakers: the people behind today's headlines. Issue 3. Thomson Gale. pp. 73. ISBN 0787680907. http://books.google.com/books?id=szcTJtwhyGoC&q=slashdot+marriage+proposal&dq=slashdot+marriage+proposal&cd=1. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
- ^ Malda, Rob (February 14, 2002). "Kathleen Fent Read This Story". Slashdot. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/14/143254. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
- ^ "News from Hope College" (PDF). February 2003. http://www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc/archive/pdf/NFHC_Feb_03.pdf. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
External links
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