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Re: Lego desk owner identity revealed
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 1 Feb 2001 03:25:26 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Steve Demlow writes:
Eric's original desk site appears to be slashdotted at the moment.

Excuse my ignorance, but what does "slashdotted" mean?

Embarassed,

Bryan



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  Re: Lego desk owner identity revealed
 
There is a popular website of news and such at: (URL) when something is mentioned on it's front page, the web traffic that is directed to the higlighted site is so voluminous that the website mentioned can't handle the load and 'goes down'. eric (...) (23 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Lego desk owner identity revealed
 
slashdotted (adj): Describes a particular denial of service due to massive number of attempted connections after being featured on SlashDot "News for nerds, stuff that matters" (www.slashdot.org) HTH ROSCO (...) (23 years ago, 1-Feb-01, to lugnet.general)

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  Lego desk owner identity revealed
 
I haven't seen anyone else post about this... Slashdot provided a link from (URL) shows one Darrell Cavens, CTO of Blue Nile, sitting at his Lego desk. So apparently this is who contracted Eric Harshbarger to create the desk. Eric's original desk (...) (23 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)

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