SlashNOT

The famous linux portal Slashdot was brought down by excessive traffic when it was linked to from the infamous slashnot.com, in this very submission.
“Due to excessive bandwidth that their servers were unable to respond to, slashdot sysadmins probably had to throttle bandwidth, leaving many slashdot users unable to view the website”, says slashnot founder Capt. Tako.
“This effect happens frequently when sites are listed on slashnot” he continues. “It’s really a tremendous compliment. It means that your site has ‘arrived’ in the consciousness of the linux community, even though users only see an error page.” “When we link to a site, we’re directing upwards of seven people directly at it, so it’s not surprising that many sites simply can’t handle the load. Frankly, if they linked to us at the same time as we linked to them, it would probably take down the Internet.” When asked if Slashdot’s failure to deliver pages might be caused by some other technical glitch, Capt. Tako. explained that it wasn’t a likely explanation, considering the high quality and availability that Slashdot has traditionally maintained. “No, it’s definitely our community. Or it might be my DNS settings.”