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April 05, 2003
The Slashdot Effect
Most readers will know about the "Slashdot Effect". This happens when a popular website (Slashdot) puts your URL in a story. Very soon afterwards, large numbers of geeks will read the story and click on the link. The site will (rapidly) become unavailable due to (1) bandwidth restrictions or (2) sheer overload.
The old questions about trees falling in the forest has instead become a question of whether it is possible to slashdot slashdot?
Now it appears that slashdot is trying to prevent any possibility of empirically testing such a theory: Slashdot Slashdotted.
Posted by Ozguru at April 5, 2003 05:04 AM
