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Rob Malda also wrote a monthly ] for '']''. His column was titled "The Department of Stuff" and had titles like adwords.txt and goodblog.txt. According to his ] ], "He spends his time fiddling with ] ]s, wandering the ], watching ], and trying to think of clever lies to put in his bio so that he seems cooler than he actually is."<ref>{{cite web |last=Malda |first=Rob |title=The Department of Stuff: Caught In The Web |url=http://www.computerpoweruser.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Farchive%2Fc0910%2F50c10%2F50c10.asp |date=October 2009 |work=Computer Power User |accessdate=28 August 2009}}</ref> | Rob Malda also wrote a monthly ] for '']''. His column was titled "The Department of Stuff" and had titles like adwords.txt and goodblog.txt. According to his ] ], "He spends his time fiddling with ] ]s, wandering the ], watching ], and trying to think of clever lies to put in his bio so that he seems cooler than he actually is."<ref>{{cite web |last=Malda |first=Rob |title=The Department of Stuff: Caught In The Web |url=http://www.computerpoweruser.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Farchive%2Fc0910%2F50c10%2F50c10.asp |date=October 2009 |work=Computer Power User |accessdate=28 August 2009}}</ref> | ||
On ] of 2002, Malda proposed to Kathleen Fent using the front page of Slashdot and she accepted.<ref>CmdrTaco. . Slashdot. Geeknet, Inc. Retrieved 2007-06-17.</ref> They were married on December 8, 2002, in ], ].<ref>{{cite web | title = News from Hope College | month = February | year = 2003 | url = http://www.hope.edu/pr/nfhc/archive/pdf/NFHC_Feb_03.pdf | format = ] | accessdate = 2007-11-23}}</ref> They currently have one child, Zachary, who was born in August 2007.<ref>{{cite web | title = Rob Malda Answers Your Questions | publisher = Slashdot | date = October 12, 2007 | url = http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/11/1527219 | accessdate = 2007-11-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = The History of Slashdot Part 4 - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow | publisher = Slashdot | date = October 31 , 2007 | url = http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/31/1631213 | accessdate = 2007-11-23}}</ref> | |||
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Rob Malda | |
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Born | (1976-05-10) May 10, 1976 (age 48) |
Other names | CmdrTaco |
Known for | founder of Slashdot |
Rob Malda (born May 10, 1976), also known as CmdrTaco, is founder 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. After running the site for two years "on a shoestring", they sold the site to Andover.net, which was later acquired by VA Linux Systems. Malda now runs the site out of the SourceForge, Inc. office in Dexter, Michigan.
Rob Malda also wrote a monthly column for Computer Power User. His column was titled "The Department of Stuff" and had titles like adwords.txt and goodblog.txt. According to his magazine biography, "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."
References
- "Attack of the Blogs". Holland Sentinel. September 7, 2004.
- "Cmdrtaco on Slashdot Sale". Wired.com. June 29, 1999.
- "VA Linux buys Andover.Net". news.com. February 3, 2000.
- Kushner, David (2007). "The Slashdot Supremacy". spectrum.ieee.org.
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External links
- Personal homepage
- "Taco Hell"
- CmdrTaco's Slashdot.org profile page
- Computer Power User Magazine Homepage
- CmdrTaco interview on the FLOSS Podcast