• Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". It features news...
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  • The Slashdot effect, also known as slashdotting, occurs when a popular website links to a smaller website, causing a massive increase in traffic. This...
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  • incorporated into a subsidiary known as Slashdot Media. In July 2015 Dice announced that it planned to sell SourceForge and Slashdot, and in January 2016 the two...
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  • targeted several prominent websites and internet personalities including Slashdot, Wikipedia, CNN, Barack Obama, Alex Jones, and prominent members of the...
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    Jeff Bates, also known as hemos, is the co-founder of Slashdot along with Rob Malda ("CmdrTaco"). Bates graduated from Holland Christian High School in...
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  • content and each site differs in how the content is moderated. On the Slashdot and Fark websites, administrators decide which articles are selected for...
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    CDrom Archive. "New E Already Released". Slashdot News. 19 January 1998. "Enlightenment 0.14 release". Slashdot. 18 July 1998. ""E news"". Archived from...
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    Rob Malda (category Slashdot)
    website Slashdot. Malda is an alumnus of Hope College and Holland Christian High School.[citation needed] In 1997, Malda and Jeff Bates created Slashdot while...
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  • written value." Slashdot effect The Slashdot effect can hit blogs or another website, and is caused by a major website (usually Slashdot, but also Digg...
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    software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting...
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    source project, the 386BSD operating system. He then moved to work on Slashdot, where his initial task was to rewrite the database back-end to use Oracle...
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    submissions. On January 27, 2016, Freecode was sold, along with SourceForge and Slashdot, to current owners BIZX, Inc. The site remains[when?] in its archived state...
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    Idris languages, created Whitespace in 2002 at the University of Durham. Slashdot published a review on April Fool's Day 2003. The idea of using whitespace...
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    "'Early Apple Employees Talk Memories of Steve Jobs, New Movie". Slashdot. Slashdot. Archived from the original on August 18, 2013. Apple's First Employee:...
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  • and Humor". Slashdot. Retrieved 1 February 2010. Birkel, G. (2004-12-29). "The Command Line In 2004". Retrieved 1 February 2010. Slashdot: Neal Stephenson...
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  • high-volume site Slashdot stores its "front page" at slashdot.org, individual stories on servers such as games.slashdot.org or it.slashdot.org, and serves...
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    mpaque (19 August 2003). "Why Apple didn't use X for the window system". Slashdot. Archived from the original on 12 November 2023. Høgsberg, Kristian (2012)...
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    "Suricata license". "New Open Source Intrusion Detector Suricata Released". Slashdot. 2009-12-31. Retrieved 2011-11-08. "Suricata Downloads". Open Security...
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  • Rikunabi IIJ uses Winny technology to distribute content. April 18, 2006. Slashdot Japan (Which also links to a now gone article by Nihon Keizai Shimbun)...
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    Jon Katz (category Slashdot)
    a contributor to the online magazine HotWired, the technology website Slashdot, and the online news magazine Slate. In his early career as an author he...
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    "'The Arc Browser is the Chrome Replacement I've Been Waiting For' - Slashdot". slashdot.org. 19 November 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2023. Pierce, David (25 July...
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    editor claimed to have been a regular troll on Slashdot. The Adequacy authors began as trolls on Slashdot and Kuro5hin, other technology-oriented discussion...
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  • software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting...
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    software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting...
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  • Test Results". Slashdot. 2003-07-23. Retrieved 2019-04-26. "After 4 Years, HydrogenAudio Opens New 128kbps Listening Test". Slashdot. 2008-11-09. Retrieved...
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    examined the effects of comment ratings on site participation on the website Slashdot. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Lampe became an assistant...
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  • This acquisition gave VA Linux popular online media properties such as Slashdot, Andover News Network, Freshmeat, NewsForge (became a mirror of linux.com...
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    Source Initiative "How Many Open Source Licenses Do You Need? – Slashdot". News.slashdot.org. 16 February 2009. Archived from the original on 17 July 2013...
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  • Retrieved October 19, 2020. "Apple Cease-And-Desists Stupidity Leak". Slashdot. 2001. Archived from the original on March 25, 2021. Retrieved July 10...
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    for-profit business. Wikipedia gained early contributors from Nupedia, Slashdot postings, and web search engine indexing. Language editions were created...
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