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Technology-related news and B2B software comparison and review 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
targeted 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 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)
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
Linked hypertext system on the Internet
software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting
World_Wide_Web
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)
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
French computer programmer
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
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 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
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
software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting
Review_aggregator
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
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
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
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
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)
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
Moderation performed by users in various types of modern message board systems
moderation. Slashdot and Kuro5hin are two websites with meta-moderation. The GameFAQs message boards used to have it. Moderation system Slashdot Metamoderation
Meta-moderation_system
American author (born 1947)
Prove?". The New York Times Magazine. "Stephen King's Net Horror Story". Slashdot. December 4, 2000. Archived from the original on May 2, 2009. Retrieved
Stephen_King
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 journalist
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
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
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
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
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
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
Experimental web platform
Torrent Downloads By IP". Slashdot. Retrieved 30 June 2025. "Interview With Suren Ter From 'You Have Downloaded'". Slashdot. 14 March 2012. Retrieved
YouHaveDownloaded
Topics referred to by the same term
Ralsky (1945–2021), American fraudster who gained notoriety after a 2002 Slashdot posting Scott Richter (born 1967) Robert Soloway (born 1980) Sanford Wallace
Spam_King
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
Family of web feed formats
software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting
RSS
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)
Method of communication
commonly by using a non-identifiable pseudonym. Some online forums such as Slashdot do not allow such posts, requiring users to be registered either under
Anonymous_post
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
Computer vulnerability scanning software
pentesters at Portcullis Computer Security and then announced by Tim Brown on Slashdot. Greenbone Vulnerability Manager is a member project of Software in the
OpenVAS
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
Form of computer communication over the internet or locally
software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting
Instant_messaging
SourceForge Top Performer Fall 2024 SourceForge Trusted Vendor Slashdot Users Love Us 2025 Slashdot Top Performer spring 2025 The Next Generation of Online Learning:
YouTestMe
Topics referred to by the same term
harvesting Slash (software), content management software used by website Slashdot Slash Church, Ashland, Virginia, on the National Register of Historic Places
Slash
American computer engineer (born 1954)
Silicon Valley (1999), with Marcus Giamatti as Kottke: In an interview with Slashdot, Kottke stated that Pirates of Silicon Valley was "a great movie. Noah
Daniel_Kottke
Form of blog for which the medium is video
software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting
Vlog
Metadata tag prefixed with #
software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting
Hashtag
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
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
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
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
Email spammer and convicted fraudster
article was posted to Slashdot, and the address of his newly built home was posted to Slashdot soon afterward. Hundreds of Slashdot readers then searched
Alan_Ralsky
Graphics API translation layer
Linux Gamers Using Wine/DXVK To Play Blizzard's Overwatch Banned - Slashdot". tech.slashdot.org. 14 September 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2024. ProtonDB - a Proton/Wine/DXVK
DXVK
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
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
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
Type of audio digital media
software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting
Podcast
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
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
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
Co-founder of Wikipedia (born 1968)
2005). "The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia, Part II". SourceForge. Slashdot. Archived from the original on November 8, 2006. Retrieved March 25, 2007
Larry_Sanger
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
Initialism for "read the fucking manual"
the fucking/featured article"– common on news forums such as Fark and Slashdot, where using "TFA" instead of "the article" has become a meme WABM – "write
RTFM
2001 documentary film
engineer (as developer of the Linux kernel)." To Tim Lord, reviewing for Slashdot, the film is interesting and worthy of viewing, with some misgivings: it
Revolution_OS
Line of tablet computers by Apple
2014. Retrieved February 7, 2010. "Apple's Trend Away From Tinkering". Slashdot. January 31, 2010. Archived from the original on February 8, 2010. Retrieved
IPad
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
Source-available distributed NoSQL wide-column data store
2025-12-11. "Cassandra Rewritten In C++, Ten Times Faster - Slashdot". developers.slashdot.org. 2015-09-22. Retrieved 2025-02-26. "Why We're Moving to
ScyllaDB
Nintendo 64 emulator
the back burner for now", though no future updates were ever released. Slashdot later reported that one of Project Unreality's developers was hired to
Project_Unreality
Anonymous imageboard website
"Internet hate machine" on July 26, 2007. Slashdot founder Rob Malda posted a comment made by another Slashdot user, Miang, stating that the story focused
4chan
pl. Retrieved 2015-12-25. "Cross-Site Scripting Worm Floods MySpace". Slashdot. 14 October 2005. Retrieved 2015-12-25. "CROSS-SITE SCRIPTING WORMS AND
Samy_(computer_worm)
Digital camera product line
1992-1996 - Canon Camera Museum". global.canon. Retrieved 2022-09-15. Slashdot, Hacking Canon Point-and-Shoot Cameras, Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May
Canon_PowerShot
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
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
Online community of Hindi-language weblogs
software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting
Hindi_blogosphere
Type of cyber-attack
cause this phenomenon. The canonical example is the Slashdot effect when receiving traffic from Slashdot. It is also known as "the Reddit hug of death" and
Denial-of-service_attack
Windowing system for bitmap displays on UNIX-like systems
mpaque (19 August 2003). "Why Apple didn't use X for the window system". Slashdot. Archived from the original on 12 November 2023. Høgsberg, Kristian (2012)
X_Window_System
American web portal
February 25, 2008. "Letter Casts Doubt On Yahoo China Testimony". yro.slashdot.org. July 30, 2007. Retrieved February 25, 2008. "Police Document Sheds
Yahoo
Rigveda Wiki Server.com SkyscraperCity SkyscraperPage.com ShadowCrew Sherdog Slashdot Something Awful Stack Overflow Steam Community Steve Hoffman Music Forums
List_of_Internet_forums
American social news website
vitriol from users personally with accusations of bias or censoring." Slashdot Reddit Graham, Paul. "Hacker News Guidelines". Archived from the original
Hacker_News
Comics published online
software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting
Webcomic
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
Short videos released on the Internet
software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting
Web_series
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)
American computer programmer
timothy (26 April 2004). "Daniel Robbins Resigns As Chief Gentoo Architect". Slashdot. Retrieved 22 November 2018. "Funtoo by Daniel Robbins". Funtoo.org. Archived
Daniel Robbins (computer programmer)
Daniel_Robbins_(computer_programmer)
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
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
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
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
American science fiction franchise
Archived May 10, 2009, at the Wayback Machine "Gen Con 2007 In A Nutshell – Slashdot". August 22, 2007. "Battlestar Galactica – Board Game – BoardGameGeek"
Battlestar_Galactica
Declassified nuclear weapons effects data map software
Location". HuffPost. 2013-07-23. "Interactive Nukemap Now In 3D - Slashdot". Slashdot. 2013-07-21. Retrieved 2013-08-04. Wellerstein, Alex (June 2019)
Nukemap
Internet advertising model
software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting
Pay-per-click
Annual programming language convention
Creator Guido van Rossum Retires, Heads To Python Conference - Slashdot". developers.slashdot.org. "Django Girls invite would-be coders to PyCon this October"
Python_Conference
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
1994 novel by Roger Williams
the original introductory article on Kuro5hin and a front-page review on Slashdot. Andrej Karpathy listed the novel in the recommended books section of his
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
The_Metamorphosis_of_Prime_Intellect
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
Data format
software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting
Web_feed
American businessman
website and community Slashdot and founder of the online community Everything2. Oostendorp was a contributor and content editor of Slashdot as well as an author
Nathan_Oostendorp
2013 American biographical drama film by Joshua Michael Stern
life, and it came at a very busy time in my life.'" In an interview with Slashdot, Daniel Kottke states that he consulted on early versions of the screenplay
Jobs_(film)
Permanent web hyperlink
software Web Slice Related Blogosphere Escribitionist Glossary of blogging Pay per click Posting style Slashdot effect Spam in blogs Uses of podcasting
Permalink
Linux distribution
Ubuntu Wiki. 2008-08-06. Slashdot: Microsoft Buys into Corel Slashdot: Corel Shuts Down Open Source Development Site Slashdot: Microsoft Gives Xandros
Corel_Linux
Stream ciphers
Bernstein". Slashdot. Retrieved 2016-09-07. Murenin, Constantine A. (2014-04-30). Soulskill (ed.). "OpenSSH No Longer Has To Depend On OpenSSL". Slashdot. Retrieved
Salsa20
French marketing company
Planet. 2024-10-08. Retrieved 2025-10-28. "Brevo Integrations in 2025". slashdot.org. Retrieved 2025-10-28. "Brevo de retour dans le Next40, le CAC 40 des
Brevo
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Tamil
Lord Krishna, Cow
Boy/Male
English
Carves wood or sculpts.
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Hindu, Indian, Jain
Talented
Male
Egyptian
, the living Horus.
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Muslim
Lamp of the religion (Islam)
Female
Scottish
Pet form of Scottish Maighread, PEIGI means "pearl."
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Hindu
Lord Rama
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Abbreviation of benjamin and benedict
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English American Teutonic
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Russian
manly'.
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