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Forgive my lack of worldliness but what is "MSMed"?

• stevenp 15y ago
  Main-stream media.
• shadowmatter 15y ago
  Mainstream media'd. Meaning someone from the mainstream media posted a link to that post, and the surge in traffic made everything slow.
• samstave 15y ago
  Slashdotted Digged Reddited Pick one
  • yuvipanda 15y ago
    They aren't considered MSM. NYT, Slate, Guardian, etc., rather.
    • samstave 15y ago
      It was a historical reference
      • icefox 15y ago
        2nded, I haven't heard 'Slashdotted' to mean getting traffic from slashdot.org in a while, but it does seem to have stuck as the means of saying we got a ton of traffic from some other website linking to us.
  • watmough 15y ago
    Your point is pretty reasonable, considering the meme sprang to popular awareness in it's 'Slashdotted' form, doubtless melting many servers down prior to appearing in the MSM.
• mainguy 15y ago
  I was searching on google trying to figure this out myself...