• 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 or the hug of death occurs when a popular website links to a smaller website, causing a massive increase...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • moderation. Slashdot and Kuro5hin are two websites with meta-moderation. The GameFAQs message boards used to have it. Moderation system Slashdot Metamoderation...
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    submissions. On January 27, 2016, Freecode was sold, along with SourceForge and Slashdot, to current owners BIZX, Inc. The site remained in its archived state....
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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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    "'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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    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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  • independently operated Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network. Originally sponsored by Slashdot and founded in 1998, in 1999 SlashNET split off to become its own entity...
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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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  • Kuro5hin (category Slashdot)
    discussion website founded by Rusty Foster in 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot. Articles were created and submitted by users and submitted to a queue...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • to efinancialcareers.com. Slashdot, SourceForge, and Freecode from Geeknet, forming Slashdot Media – September 2012. (Slashdot Media was sold to BIZX, LLC...
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  • approximately the same as that covered and regularly discussed on the Slashdot — including free software, Internet phenomena, computer programming, and...
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  • about cyberterrorism from Slashdot readers, and then re-wrote his story based on that feedback and compensated the Slashdot writers whose information...
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    machine learning to learn the user's listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine. The New Yorker once...
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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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  • commonly by using a non-identifiable pseudonym. Some online forums such as Slashdot do not allow such posts, requiring users to be registered either under...
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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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  • one of the best demos created during the early 1990s on the PC; in 1999 Slashdot voted it one of the "Top 10 Hacks of All Time". Its source code was released...
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  • harvesting Slash (software), content management software used by website Slashdot Slash Church, Ashland, Virginia, on the National Register of Historic Places...
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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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  • the original on May 20, 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2013. "Freedows splits". Slashdot. Dice Holdings. August 31, 1998. Retrieved May 17, 2013. Microsoft Windows...
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