^* In fact, in the olden days of the web, when a site got linked by Slashdot it frequently overloaded the server, jamming it and making site loading very slow. This became known as "getting ...

Slashdot is so popular that traffic from its links can cripple small websites, sometimes for days. So a couple of fans have set up a site called Mirrordot to alleviate the problem by hosting ...

Since Slashdot was founded, my business card has read Blockstackers, Andover, Andover.net, VA Linux Systems, VA Software, OSDN, OSTG, SourceForge, and finally Geeknet.

Slashdot isn't a site where you go to read breaking technology news—it's a site where you go to read good commentary about that news (at least, it's good if you browse at +3).

Nearly five years ago, a 21-year-old computer-science nerd made his first postings on a Web site known as Slashdot. Those messages marked the beginning of what would become an Internet phenomenon.

When I started Slashdot in '97, there were a lot of things happening in this area, but there wasn't a Web site that was dealing with the issues that we were dealing with on a sort of formal level.

There once was a time that Slashdot was the nexus of news from the technologists in the trenches. To have your online article"Slashdotted" was akin to receiving heavy airplay on the radio.

DHI Group—formerly known as Dice Holdings Incorporated prior to this April—announced plans this morning to sell the combination of Slashdot and SourceForge. The announcement was made as part ...

Dice Holdings, Inc. Acquires Online Media Business from Geeknet, Inc. Slashdot and SourceForge Significantly Increase Reach into Global Technology Community New York, NY and Fairfax, VA ...

When I was a computer science student in college, everyone I knew read Slashdot. Founded in 1997, the site was dedicated to "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." It featured about a dozen short ...