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Title: Get ready for slash dot.
Post by: lokki on July 25, 2007, 02:46:49 pm

Review of the book at slash dot


http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/25/1414246

Title: Re: Get ready for slash dot.
Post by: RayB on July 25, 2007, 04:19:56 pm

Good thing there is no link to this site, otherwise it would have crashed within 15 minutes of the book review going live.

Title: Re: Get ready for slash dot.
Post by: Kaytrim on July 25, 2007, 04:31:44 pm

Quote from: RayB on July 25, 2007, 04:19:56 pm

Good thing there is no link to this site, otherwise it would have crashed within 15 minutes of the book review going live.

There is one in the comments.

Title: Re: Get ready for slash dot.
Post by: saint on July 26, 2007, 09:10:44 am

Actually SirWoogie and I were kind of hoping for a Slashdotting to see how well the server would hold up :)

Title: Re: Get ready for slash dot.
Post by: bigdady92 on July 26, 2007, 11:25:08 am

Quote from: saint on July 26, 2007, 09:10:44 am

Actually SirWoogie and I were kind of hoping for a Slashdotting to see how well the server would hold up :)

anything?

Title: Re: Get ready for slash dot.
Post by: saint on July 26, 2007, 12:31:26 pm

Nary a blip :)

Title: Re: Get ready for slash dot.
Post by: missioncontrol on July 26, 2007, 12:36:28 pm

during the DF fiasco didn't slashdot or one of those other highly traffic site point to the DF thread, which bumped up the number of people online to 555...

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Title: Re: Get ready for slash dot.
Post by: saint on July 26, 2007, 12:54:18 pm

That 555 was a Slashdot affect, but I don't recall if it was DF or something else.

Title: Re: Get ready for slash dot.
Post by: missioncontrol on July 26, 2007, 04:43:53 pm

I'm 99.9% sure it was when he tried to trademark MAME.... but then again I'd have to do a search in "Forum Discussion" to be for sure....

Title: Re: Get ready for slash dot.
Post by: TOK on July 26, 2007, 05:59:05 pm

Man, look at some of those comments. I thought nerds were supposed to be smart.  :dunno