"News for nerds. Stuff that matters." - Frequented by such luminaries as the creator of wikipedia as well as several engineers from NASA, slashdot's users submit 'nerdy' technology-related news which is moderated by its editors. So influential that it inspired its own 'slashdot effect', where sites crash because of the huge amount of traffic generated from being linked to from the site, slash dot can be a bit overwhelming for the casual browser.

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