States-The site, which bills itself as "News for Nerds". submitted and evaluated news stories about science and technology related topics. Slashdot was founded in 1997 as a blog, Chips and Dips, by Hope College computer science Rob Malta, also known as "Commander Taco" and classmate Jeff Bates, also known as "Demos".
Discussion is moderated bay user-Randall selected mandatory are assigned points which they can use to rate a comment. The site's comment are moderation system is administrated by its own open source content management system, Slash, which is available under the GNU General Public Licence.
7 million unique visitors per month are received over 5300 comments per day. Occasionally, a story will link to a server causing a large surge of traffic, which which can overhasty some smaller or independent sites. The phenomenon is known as the "Slashdot effect".
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Slashdot Mirror
States-The site, which bills itself as "News for Nerds". submitted and evaluated news stories about science and technology related topics. Slashdot was founded in 1997 as a blog, Chips and Dips, by Hope College computer science Rob Malta, also known as "Commander Taco" and classmate Jeff Bates, also known as "Demos". Discussion is moderated bay user-Randall selected mandatory are assigned points which they can use to rate a comment. The site's comment are moderation system is administrated by its own open source content management system, Slash, which is available under the GNU General Public Licence. 7 million unique visitors per month are received over 5300 comments per day. Occasionally, a story will link to a server causing a large surge of traffic, which which can overhasty some smaller or independent sites. The phenomenon is known as the "Slashdot effect". For more details please visit http//:www.dkspire.com