Being slashdotted means that a huge influx of Internet traffic has come upon a website as a result of its being mentioned on Slashdot, a technology news and information site.
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Goddamnit. They found my pictures of the Mountian Dew bottle I turned into a computer... fuckers slashdotted my server.
by trypnotic May 21, 2003
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"I can't load the page, the site must be slashdotted"
"You got the Google cache? The site's slashdotted"
"You got the Google cache? The site's slashdotted"
by Anonymous November 5, 2002
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A reference to the root (top most) directory on a Unix system (written as "/."). This is normally used when logged in as the root user, as it can be a security threat to have the root directory as part of root's path. This was borrowed as the name for the popular news site "slashdot.org".
by Brian October 19, 2004
Get the slashdot mug.One of the older geek hangouts on the World Wide Web; a notable and wretched hive of scum and villainy. The denizens of Slashdot are known to engage, with regards to their self-professed knowledge of All-Things-Technical, in the same kind of macho douchebaggery that highschool jocks wield against their brainy counterparts. In this way they are quite adept at demonstrating their own propensities for egotism and vanity.
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Get the Slashdot mug.When a website experiences a surge in user traffic to the point of grinding to a halt. Often this results in web masters having to foot huge bills if they pay by bandwidth.
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