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		justsomehnguy 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API > , and for sure as a nerd in the '00s everybody understood the joke of showing Bill Gates as a Borg on Slashdot. Everybody, Gates and Slashdot in one sentence.

account42 7 months ago [–]

There is a reason it was called the slashdot effect, because it was the biggest source of traffic for many sites it linked.

justsomehnguy 7 months ago | [–]

sigh

Yes, a bunch of nerds (10k?, 20k?) worldwide forced someone's PC used as a server to crash. Their views surely represent the views of a country with ~~50M population, right?

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