Tuesday, 11 January 2011

Slashdot

An Internet news service, focusing on information technology in all its many manifestations, with a substantial subculture attached - starting with its name, deliberately coined to cause consternation when verbalising its URL - http://slashdot.com. Try it.

Its name has become a verb, meaning to overwhelm a website with traffic - a common consequence of a mention by Slashdot.

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