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1. city41+MF[view] [source] 2018-05-25 01:40:40
>>evanwe+(OP)
In the early days of Twitter the "fail whale" was so common it got assimilated into culture as a term to use for anytime any site gets overloaded. Nowadays it seems like that term is "hugged to death"

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s...

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2. paulco+mH[view] [source] 2018-05-25 02:05:34
>>city41+MF
For us old timers the term is “slashdotted.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect

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3. throw_+3M[view] [source] 2018-05-25 03:23:57
>>paulco+mH
As slashdot's active user count dwindles and as it has gotten a bit easier to build a site that can handle decent traffic, I wonder if there was (or will be) a specific last site to get literally slashdotted.
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