reviving a bit of slashdot history

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

Great article Steve,

Have you tried the WayBack Machine?
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ssadler.phy.bnl.gov/adler/SDE/SlashDotEffect.html

Greg Rundlett




On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Stephen Adler <adler-wRvlPVLobi1/31tCrMuHxg at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> A looonnngggg time ago, I was doing what is now called blogging or more
> precisely, publishing online, some personal journals and what not. This
> was back in 1998-2000. In those early days of the internet, it was
> actually quite easy to get my articles mentioned in slashdot, and as a
> result, I was able to document, and I think it was for the first time,
> the famous slashdot effect. See link below...
>
>
> http://news.slashdot.org/story/99/02/01/2140256/The-Slashdot-Effect-Investigated?art_pos=4
>
> When I wrote the article, it was served up off my red hat 5.1 (or so)
> desktop running apache with a direct link to the Internet from the
> national laboratory I was working at back then. (T3 class I believe.) I
> had a lot of bandwidth into the Internet provided by the department of
> energy. :)
>
> But that was then, and now is now. The server which hosted my articles
> was taken down and recently I've decided it was time to bring these
> articles back to life on my new website. The only problem, is that I
> don't know how to get all the search engines to find them again....
> Anyway, my original documentation of the slashdot effect is now here...
>
> http://stephenadler.org/tiki-index.php?page=The+Slashdot+Effect
>
> (For what ever it's worth...)
>
> Cheers. Steve.
>
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