Slash (software)


Slash is a content management system, originally created for Slashdot, one of the oldest collaborative sites on the Internet. which was the name of the project's web site.
Slash is a set of modules, plugins and applets — scripts or programs executed by the server — written in Perl.

History

Early versions of Slash were written by Rob Malda, founder of Slashdot, in the spring of 1998. After Andover.net bought Slashdot in June 1999,
In 2014, users of Slashdot forked the website and created SoylentNews. With Slashdot having long since moved to a different platform, the SoylentNews developers are the de jure maintainers of modern Slash. Rehash remains primarily under the GNU General Public License and anyone can contribute to development.