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It's made its way into near-future SF. Some character in a novel by Ken Macleod, faced with a Plot Device disaster, says to a friend "I can't even get to Slashd

by kabdib 15y ago

It's made its way into near-future SF. Some character in a novel by Ken Macleod, faced with a Plot Device disaster, says to a friend "I can't even get to Slashdot."

burgerbrain 15y ago
The verb "slashdotted" is even more common. I recall seeing it at least once in a Charles Stross novel or two, and in numerous other near-future SF.
- goatforce5 15y ago
  I once submitted a friend's blog entry to slashdot. It was picked for the front page. I can't remember exactly how it works, but you get an email or a notice on the site saying your story will appear shortly. I was in my friend's living room at the time, sitting near the laptop on the end of an ADSL connection that served his blog. "Ummmm.... I think i've done a baaaaad thing." That lil' ol' laptop was absolutely hammered for the next day, even after moving the images, etc., on to 'proper' servers and making the site static.
  - jseliger 15y ago
    I submitted my review of of the Unicomp Customizer (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/08/05/29/1334258/Review-of-the-Model-M-Inspired-Unicomp-Customizer-Keyboard http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/08/05/29/1334258/Review-o...) years ago, and I think that day remains the most traffic I've ever gotten. Granted, it's a generic Wordpress.com blog and thus not susceptible to Slashdotting, but I still remember looking at the traffic spike and going, "Wow."
phillmv 15y ago
I'm fairly certain it was mentioned by a character in an issue of Neil Gaiman's Sandman. It's had reverberations across the geek ethos.
- hemos 15y ago
  It was; Neil and I actually talked about that at one point. Our first email exchange ran something along the lines of me saying my (then baby) first born had a Sandman mobile above her crib; Neil's reply "And my son's home page is Slashdot"
simmons 15y ago
In less-than-near-future SF, the antagonists in Alastair Reynolds' _Century Rain_, the "Slashers", were supposed to be the intellectual descendants of Slashdotters. From Wikipedia: ``...they trace their existence back to "an alliance of progressive thinkers linked together by one of the first computer networks", whose symbol was a slash and a dot.'' I had to groan a bit at this gratuitous reference in an otherwise tight novel. :)

by kabdib 15y ago

It's made its way into near-future SF. Some character in a novel by Ken Macleod, faced with a Plot Device disaster, says to a friend "I can't even get to Slashdot."

burgerbrain 15y ago

The verb "slashdotted" is even more common. I recall seeing it at least once in a Charles Stross novel or two, and in numerous other near-future SF.

goatforce5 15y ago
I once submitted a friend's blog entry to slashdot. It was picked for the front page. I can't remember exactly how it works, but you get an email or a notice on the site saying your story will appear shortly. I was in my friend's living room at the time, sitting near the laptop on the end of an ADSL connection that served his blog. "Ummmm.... I think i've done a baaaaad thing." That lil' ol' laptop was absolutely hammered for the next day, even after moving the images, etc., on to 'proper' servers and making the site static.
- jseliger 15y ago
  I submitted my review of of the Unicomp Customizer (http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/08/05/29/1334258/Review-of-the-Model-M-Inspired-Unicomp-Customizer-Keyboard http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/08/05/29/1334258/Review-o...) years ago, and I think that day remains the most traffic I've ever gotten. Granted, it's a generic Wordpress.com blog and thus not susceptible to Slashdotting, but I still remember looking at the traffic spike and going, "Wow."

phillmv 15y ago

I'm fairly certain it was mentioned by a character in an issue of Neil Gaiman's Sandman. It's had reverberations across the geek ethos.

hemos 15y ago
It was; Neil and I actually talked about that at one point. Our first email exchange ran something along the lines of me saying my (then baby) first born had a Sandman mobile above her crib; Neil's reply "And my son's home page is Slashdot"

simmons 15y ago

In less-than-near-future SF, the antagonists in Alastair Reynolds' _Century Rain_, the "Slashers", were supposed to be the intellectual descendants of Slashdotters. From Wikipedia: ``...they trace their existence back to "an alliance of progressive thinkers linked together by one of the first computer networks", whose symbol was a slash and a dot.'' I had to groan a bit at this gratuitous reference in an otherwise tight novel. :)