Comments on: News for nerds: why a career site bought Slashdot http://gigaom.com/2012/09/18/news-for-nerds-why-a-career-site-bought-slashdot/ Sun, 19 May 2013 07:37:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: davidgerard http://gigaom.com/2012/09/18/news-for-nerds-why-a-career-site-bought-slashdot/#comment-1004692 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:33:54 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=563946#comment-1004692 In its heyday, the Slashdot Effect would cripple servers with *hundreds of thousands* of requests in a very short time.

I got Slashdotted recently. Total hits: about 6,000 over a couple of days.

Slashdot died some time ago. Nobody cares. That’s why it’s being sold off to somewhere hilariously inappropriate.

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