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I remember on 9/11 that Slashdot was one of the few sites that stayed up available to deliver commentary and speculation. That was impressive for the time.
by Wildgoose 3y ago
I remember on 9/11 that Slashdot was one of the few sites that stayed up available to deliver commentary and speculation. That was impressive for the time.
- OfSanguineFire 3y agoBy 9/11 "being slashdotted" was a well-known phenomenon (that is, websites going down because they drew so much traffic from Slashdot’s large readership at the time). That meant that the site’s own servers had likely been hardened in various ways to deal with heavy traffic.
- bell-cot 3y agoIf I recall - CmdrTaco talked in considerable detail (at the time, on SlashDot) about the rather extreme technical changes that he and his crew performed, on the fly, on 9/11, to keep their site up.
- spookthesunset 3y agoI remember that as well. All the major new sites were unusable because they were so slow and crashy. Slashdot had pictures and everything. What a wild time.
- cmdrtaco 3y agoI was never prouder of my team.