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Technology-related news and reviews website
Slashdot (sometimes abbreviated as /.) is a social news website that originally billed itself as "News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters". It features news
Slashdot
Increase in traffic caused by links
The Slashdot effect, also known as slashdotting or the hug of death, occurs when a popular website links to a smaller website, causing a massive increase
Slashdot_effect
Defunct internet trolling group
targeting several prominent websites and internet personalities, including Slashdot, Wikipedia, CNN, Barack Obama, Alex Jones, and prominent members of the
Gay Nigger Association of America
Gay_Nigger_Association_of_America
Software discovery and hosting platform for B2B and open source software
into a subsidiary known as Slashdot Media. In July 2015, Dice announced that it planned to sell SourceForge and Slashdot, and, in January 2016, the two
SourceForge
Kind of web service
content and each site differs in how the content is moderated. On the Slashdot and Fark websites, administrators decide which articles are selected for
Social_news_website
American author (born 1947)
Plant". US Press Center. July 24, 2000. "Stephen King's Net Horror Story". Slashdot. December 4, 2000. Archived from the original on May 2, 2009. Retrieved
Stephen_King
Compositing window manager
CDrom Archive. "New E Already Released". Slashdot News. 19 January 1998. "Enlightenment 0.14 release". Slashdot. 18 July 1998. ""E news"". Archived from
Enlightenment (window manager)
Enlightenment_(window_manager)
American businessman
Jeff Bates, also known as hemos, is the co-founder of Slashdot along with Rob Malda ("CmdrTaco"). Bates graduated from Holland Christian High School in
Jeff_Bates_(technologist)
Computer operating system
the original on May 12, 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2013. "Freedows splits". Slashdot. Dice Holdings. August 31, 1998. Archived from the original on November
Microsoft_Windows
Linked hypertext system on the Internet
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World_Wide_Web
Esoteric programming language
Idris languages, created Whitespace in 2002 at the University of Durham. Slashdot published a review on April Fool's Day 2003. The idea of using whitespace
Whitespace (programming language)
Whitespace_(programming_language)
Metadata tag prefixed with #
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Hashtag
Science fiction subgenre in a futuristic dystopian setting
3. ISBN 978-1-904764-33-5. "Notes Toward a Postcyberpunk Manifesto". Slashdot. October 8, 1999. Originally published in Nova Express, issue 16 (1998)
Cyberpunk
Type of journalism
about cyberterrorism from Slashdot readers, and then re-wrote his story based on that feedback and compensated the Slashdot writers whose information
Open-source_journalism
Freeware web browser
"'The Arc Browser is the Chrome Replacement I've Been Waiting For' - Slashdot". slashdot.org. 19 November 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2023. Miller, Josh (26 May
Arc_(web_browser)
Technology-related discussion website (1999–2016)
discussion website founded by Rusty Foster in 1999, having been inspired by Slashdot. Articles were created and submitted by users and submitted to a queue
Kuro5hin
System that collects reviews of products and services
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Review_aggregator
PC demo by Future Crew (1993)
one of the best demos created during the early 1990s on the PC; in 1999 Slashdot voted it one of the "Top 10 Hacks of All Time". Its source code was released
Second_Reality
American information scientist
examined the effects of comment ratings on site participation on the website Slashdot. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Lampe became an assistant
Cliff_Lampe
American journalist (born 1947)
a contributor to the online magazine HotWired, the technology website Slashdot, and the online news magazine Slate. In his early career as an author he
Jon_Katz
Form of computer communication over the internet or locally
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Instant_messaging
Type of audio digital media
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Podcast
2010 incident by Larry Sanger to the FBI targeting Wikimedia Commons
several allegations were made against Sanger and picked up by sites such as Slashdot: that this was an attempt to destroy the Wikimedia Foundation; that there
Reporting of child pornography images on Wikimedia Commons
Reporting_of_child_pornography_images_on_Wikimedia_Commons
Career website
to efinancialcareers.com. Slashdot, SourceForge, and Freecode from Geeknet, forming Slashdot Media – September 2012. (Slashdot Media was sold to BIZX, LLC
Dice.com
Acorn-clone personal computer
Technology and Iyonix Ltd between 2002 and 2008. According to news site Slashdot, it was the first personal computer to use Intel's XScale processor. It
Iyonix_PC
written value." Slashdot effect The Slashdot effect can hit blogs or another website, and is caused by a major website (usually Slashdot, but also Digg
Glossary_of_blogging
French computer programmer (born 1972)
Compiles And Boots Linux In 15 Seconds". Slashdot. 2004-10-25. "Digital TV Transmitter using a VGA card". Slashdot. 2005-06-13. "Javascript PC Emulator –
Fabrice_Bellard
Online community of audio enthusiasts
Test Results". Slashdot. 2003-07-23. Retrieved 2019-04-26. "After 4 Years, HydrogenAudio Opens New 128kbps Listening Test". Slashdot. 2008-11-09. Retrieved
Hydrogenaudio
American technology magazine
from March 1994 to August 2019, over 25 years, before being bought by Slashdot Media in 2020. Linux Journal was the first magazine to be published about
Linux_Journal
Concept in political economics
2013. Since then the term has entered the vocabulary of sites such as Slashdot. Within economics the concept of technofeudalism was described in an article
Technofeudalism
Family of web feed formats
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RSS
Episodic short videos released online
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Web_series
Operating system for Apple computers
Retrieved October 19, 2020. "Apple Cease-And-Desists Stupidity Leak". Slashdot. 2001. Archived from the original on March 25, 2021. Retrieved July 10
MacOS
Comics published online
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Webcomic
Grouping of related messages in digital communications
Discourse FastMail Gmail Hacker News MSN Groups Protonmail Reddit Roundcube Slashdot Yahoo! Groups Zulip Hines, Elise (5 May 2017). "What Is an Email Thread
Thread_(online_communication)
Use of a linked object on one web page to a second site
high-volume site Slashdot stores its "front page" at slashdot.org, individual stories on servers such as games.slashdot.org or it.slashdot.org, and serves
Inline_linking
Elliptic curve used in Internet cryptography
Bernstein Crypto". Slashdot. Retrieved 2014-12-27. Murenin, Constantine A. (2014-05-01). timothy (ed.). "OpenBSD 5.5 Released". Slashdot. Retrieved 2014-12-27
Curve25519
Associate Professor
Washington in 2001. His dissertation examined the social implications of the Slashdot website. He also completed coursework in communication and cognitive science
Alexander_Halavais
BitTorrent metasearch engine
Retrieved 24 February 2015. "Poisoned Torrents Plague Mybittorrent - Slashdot". slashdot.org. 26 September 2005. Archived from the original on 16 January
YourBittorrent
Social cataloging web application
to libraries. At the end of June 2006, LibraryThing was subject to the Slashdot effect from a Wall Street Journal article. The site's developers added
LibraryThing
Set of computer programs providing encrypted communication sessions
"OpenSSH Has a New Cipher — Chacha20-poly1305 — from D.J. Bernstein". Slashdot. Retrieved 26 December 2014. Murenin, Constantine A. (30 April 2014). Soulskill
OpenSSH
Satirical website
org's slogan was "News for grown-ups," a play on the slogan of the popular Slashdot technology news site, "News for nerds. Stuff that matters," as an Adequacy's
Adequacy.org
though, rather than community-based technology news sites such as Digg or Slashdot. Tabloid newspapers traditionally aim for sensationalist stories, celebrity
Tech_tabloid
Method of network communication where requests are sent by the publisher
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Push_technology
American businessman and programmer (born 1984)
machine learning to learn the user's listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine. The New Yorker once
Mark_Zuckerberg
American political podcast
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Pod_Save_America
Type of web page
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Landing_page
Data format
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Web_feed
American computer scientist
Chairman Greg Stein (Slashdot article) Video interview at dev2dev Interview with Googles (sic) Greg Stein and Chris DiBona (Slashdot interview about the
Greg_Stein
1999 mass shooting in Colorado, U.S.
February 10, 2019. JonKatz (April 26, 1999). "Voices From The Hellmouth". Slashdot. Archived from the original on August 21, 2008. Retrieved August 24, 2008
Columbine High School massacre
Columbine_High_School_massacre
Free software word processor
Retrieved 2011-09-22. "AbiWord beats OpenOffice to a Grammar Checker". Slashdot. 2005-10-15. Retrieved 2007-11-23. The recently released AbiWord-2.4..
AbiWord
Window manager
"WindowMaker Development Resumes, Has First Release Since 2006 – Slashdot". tech.slashdot.org. 16 February 2012. "dockapps.net: Home". www.dockapps.net.
Window_Maker
Former Finnish demogroup
(1994, tool) Metropolis (2011, music compilation) "Slashdot's "Top 10 Hacks of All Time"". Slashdot. 1999-12-13. Retrieved 2010-12-25. Second Reality by
Future_Crew
Free online crowdsourced encyclopedia
for-profit business. Wikipedia gained early contributors from Nupedia, Slashdot postings, and web search engine indexing. Language editions were created
Wikipedia
covered in Wired Magazine and the story was picked up and discussed on Slashdot. Hatebase was also covered in Metro News, a Canadian publication. It was
Hatebase
American writer (born 1966)
further legal action. Larry Niven commented directly on this issue in a Slashdot interview. Sternberg is also the creator of The Journal Entries of Kennet
Elf_Sternberg
location (link) Buss, Frank (2005-04-28). "Practical Common Lisp". Slashdot. SlashdotMedia. Retrieved 2019-11-26. H., Ed (2005-11-27). "Thoughts Reading
Practical_Common_Lisp
Mechanism in blogging
bookmarking and user commentary; unlike social news services like Digg, Slashdot, and Reddit, however, reblogging typically does not involve a centralized
Reblogging
American computer programmer and video game developer (born 1970)
johnc), an active Twitter account, and also occasionally posts comments to Slashdot. Carmack supported the 2012 presidential campaign of Libertarian Ron Paul
John_Carmack
Open-source network analysis and threat detection software
"Suricata license". "New Open Source Intrusion Detector Suricata Released". Slashdot. 2009-12-31. Retrieved 2011-11-08. Rice-Jones, Joe (March 26, 2025). "5
Suricata_(software)
American open-source hacker
source project, the 386BSD operating system. He then moved to work on Slashdot, where his initial task was to rewrite the database back-end to use Oracle
Brian_Aker
2009 popular history book by Andrew Lih
importance of early influences on Wikipedia including Usenet, HyperCard, Slashdot, and MeatballWiki. He also explores the cultural differences found within
The_Wikipedia_Revolution
Website
submissions. On January 27, 2016, Freecode was sold, along with SourceForge and Slashdot, to current owners BIZX, Inc. The site remained in its archived state.
Freecode
Client software that aggregates syndicated web content
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News_aggregator
Defunct website for bypassing paywalls
July 17, 2025. "News Publishers Take Paywall-Blocker 12ft.io Offline". Slashdot. July 17, 2025. Retrieved September 9, 2025. "12ft.io — outages, problems
12ft
Open-source web-based collaborative real-time editor
David Cole. The original website was etherpad.com. Etherpad was covered by Slashdot on November 21, 2008, resulting in server slowdown and downtime. This led
Etherpad
Predecessor of Wikipedia (2000–2003)
(April 18, 2005). "The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir". Slashdot. Archived from the original on May 25, 2009. Retrieved May 26, 2012. Lih
Nupedia
Web-hosted software development forge service including source code repository management
22, 2024, that OSDN had announced they would shut down the associated Slashdot Japan-successor site (Surado) at the end of January 2024. However, articles
OSDN
Essay by Neal Stephenson
Wit and Humor". Slashdot. Retrieved 1 February 2010. Miller, R. (2004-10-20). "Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor". Slashdot. Retrieved 1 February
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
In_the_Beginning..._Was_the_Command_Line
American journalist (1952–2018)
technology who worked for Open Source Technology Group, the company that owned Slashdot, SourceForge.net, freshmeat, Linux.com, NewsForge, and ThinkGeek from 2000
Robin Miller (technology journalist)
Robin_Miller_(technology_journalist)
American film producer
of Champagne Charlie (1995)". Screen Australia. 1 July 2008. Retrieved 2 May 2014. Slashdot: The MythBusters Answer Your Questions Peter Rees at IMDb
Peter_Rees_(producer)
Wikipedian
Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference - Slashdot". news.slashdot.org. Retrieved 2026-08-16. "Gunman Arrested After Storming Stage
Richard_Knipel
Type of linkback method for Web authors
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Trackback
Permanent web hyperlink
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Permalink
Desktop theme for GNOME and KDE
address". Retrieved 2006-10-21. "Bero Quits Red Hat Over Treatment of KDE". Slashdot. 2002-09-25. Retrieved 2006-10-21. Fedora Artwork Waikato Linux Users Group
Bluecurve
American computer scientist (born c.1958)
announcement of The Open Source Definition was made on February 9, 1998, on Slashdot and elsewhere; the definition was given in Linux Gazette on February 10
Bruce_Perens
American businessman (born 1976)
website Slashdot. Malda is an alumnus of Hope College and Holland Christian High School.[citation needed] In 1997, he and Jeff Bates created Slashdot while
Rob_Malda
American company
This acquisition gave VA Linux popular online media properties such as Slashdot, Andover News Network, Freshmeat, NewsForge (became a mirror of linux.com
Geeknet
2009 British film
2005-06-07. Retrieved 2024-01-02. "Creative Commons In the News - Slashdot". yro.slashdot.org. 2005-03-15. Retrieved 2024-01-02. "Michela Ledwidge Biography"
Sanctuary_(2009_film)
Technology news website (defunct)
or respond to each post, a template the editor admitted borrowing from Slashdot. The operating revenue for DailyTech was primarily dependent on advertising
DailyTech
Form of blog for which the medium is video
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Vlog
Web browser made by Mozilla
45 Will Remove Tab Groups Today, Get This Add-on To Replace It". news.slashdot.org. March 8, 2016. Archived from the original on August 12, 2021. Retrieved
Firefox
Wikipedia, WikiWikiWeb, MeatballWiki, Wetpaint, PBworks, TV Tropes WWW: eBay, Slashdot, Digg, Reddit Consumers: eBay, Amazon.com Software that enable online communities:
List_of_virtual_communities
Keyword assigned to information
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Tag_(metadata)
American computer designer
"'Early Apple Employees Talk Memories of Steve Jobs, New Movie". Slashdot. Slashdot. Archived from the original on August 18, 2013. Apple's First Employee:
Bill_Fernandez
Database operation that restores a previous state
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Rollback_(data_management)
Hong Kong electronics company
Shuts Down Lik Sang - Slashdot". slashdot.org. 3 October 2002. "Lik-Sang Back Online, Minus Modchips - Slashdot". games.slashdot.org. 15 October 2002.
Bung_Enterprises
Linux distribution
on November 26, 2005. Retrieved January 28, 2010. "Slashdot | Gentoo 1.0 Released". Linux.slashdot.org. March 31, 2002. Archived from the original on
Gentoo_Linux
1997 work by Suelette Dreyfus
edition of the book freely available in 2001, when it was announced on Slashdot, the server housing the book crashed due to the demand for the book. It
Underground_(Dreyfus_book)
Video codec library
Designs to respect the terms of the GPL. After articles were published in Slashdot and The Inquirer, in August 2002 Sigma Designs agreed to publish their
Xvid
Social network with short posts
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Microblogging
2005 film by Garth Jennings
keep the interest of the original British audience. In an interview with Slashdot, Stamp stated the following about the cast: The hardest character to cast
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film)
The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(film)
Canadian video game developer (1983–2019)
Holowka met Derek Yu in the comments section of popular technology website Slashdot in a post regarding Jack Thompson's proposal and along with Chris Hanson
Alec_Holowka
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Escribitionist
Internet Relay Chat network
independently operated Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network. Originally sponsored by Slashdot and founded in 1998, in 1999 SlashNET split off to become its own entity
SlashNET
Barrapunto was a Spanish-language Slashdot-like website, founded on 7 June 1999, which is part of a complex social network among Spanish-language websites
Barrapunto
1990s debate regarding the Linux kernel
article and an archived copy of the 1992 debate on the technology site Slashdot caused the subject to be rekindled. Torvalds posted a rebuttal of Tanenbaum's
Tanenbaum–Torvalds_debate
American magazine
fiction in non-traditional media. The Fiction Circus has been featured in Slashdot, The New York Times and Wired, among other online news sources. They have
The_Fiction_Circus
Means of improving the efficiency of TCP/IP networks
John Nagle (January 19, 2006), Boosting Socket Performance on Linux, Slashdot Nagle, John. "Sigh. If you're doing bulk file transfers, you never hit
Nagle's_algorithm
Phillips, it was previously maintained by Larry Doolittle and Jon Nelson. Slashdot and Fotolog use Boa to serve images. As of its last release, Boa has the
Boa_(web_server)
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