Slashdot 10th Anniversary
The Sputnik launch isn’t the only big anniversary this month; Slashdot is celebrating, too.
The influential “news for nerds” site famous for swamping unsuspecting websites with huge amounts of server crashing traffic turns 10 this month and Slashdot parties are popping up all around the country.
It all started in 1997, in a time before there was Gmail.
Slashdot founder and editor Rob Malda, aka CmdrTaco, wanted a non-college-affiliated e-mail address, so he simply registered his own domain name.
While he was at it, he decided to add a little humor and make the URL as unpronounceable as possible: “H, T, T, P, colon, slash, slash, slashdot, dot, org.”
What Malda didn’t expect was that Slashdot would become one of the most popular geek news sites on the web, overloading so many websites’ servers that the phrase “Slashdot effect” would be coined.
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