slashdot

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Verb 1.4 See also 1.5 Quotations

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From the popular geek news site Slashdot (http://slashdot.org).

[edit] Pronunciation

(US) SAMPA:/sl{S.dQt/

[edit] Verb

to slashdot (third-person singular simple present slashdots, present participle slashdotting, simple past and past participle slashdotted)

1. (computing, Internet) To render a web site slow or unusable via the unusually large number of page requests that result from a link on a very popular web site.
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) To overwhelm, swamp.

[edit] See also

• DDOS
• DDOS attack

[edit] Quotations

• 2002, Shelley Powers et al., Unix Power Tools [1]

  If these numbers are significantly higher than normal usage, something is amiss (perhaps your web server has been slashdotted).

• [2003], 2006 Matthew Strebe, The Best of SlashNOT, 2002–2005 [2]

  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.

• 2005, Ivan Ristic, Apache Security [3]

  Sites that have been slashdotted report traffic between several hundred and several thousand hits per minute.

• 2005, Charles Stross, Accelerando [4]

  Oh shit, thinks Manfred, better buy some more server time. He can recognize the signs: He's about to be slashdotted.