slashdot
verbEtymology After Slashdot, a site that commonly links to other, smaller sites.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Internet, Dated To render a website slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site.
- And that guy is supposed to be thrilled to lose both his inbound and outbound connections and e-mail for the joy of having been slashdotted.2006, Matthew Strebe, Michael Moncur, Charles Perkins, The Best of SlashNOT: 2002 - 2005, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 99:
- Sites that have been slashdotted report traffic between several hundred and several thousand hits per minute.2005, Ivan Ristic, Apache Security, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 396:
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- Oh shit, thinks Manfred, better buy some more server time. He can recognize the signs: He's about to be slashdotted.2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando, New York: Ace Books, →ISBN, archived from the original on 19 May 2008; republished London: Orbit Books, 2005, →ISBN:
- Synonyms
- fark
- Related terms
- Slashdot effect, slashdotting, DDOS, go viral