Slashdot / On-line magazine - Economy-point.org

» Personal Loan No Credit Check, Online Economics » On-line magazine » Topics begins with S » Slashdot

Page modified: �roda, lipiec 13, 2011 20:30:57

Slashdot (often also with/. shortened) a mixture from a Web-based Nachrichtenticker and a Web log is aligned, to technical pieces of news. From Rob "CmdrTaco "Malda 1997 based, belongs to Slashdot today to open the SOURCE Technology Group, the former open SOURCE development network.

Contents of Slashdot consist mostly of summaries of other web pages and left to these sides. Each reader has the possibility of delivering a comment to a topic (mentioned "story "). This possibility of the interaction is actively used, in order to only attach additions, contrary opinions or jokes and Wortspielereien for a topic. To story several hundred comments are mostly written.

The core of the Slashdot public ("news for nerds. Stuff that matters. ") in particular Linux consists of advocates of free software. Therefore often "Bashing so mentioned happens "in the comments, i.e. with the readers unpopular companies (all in front Microsoft and SCO) are condemned or made ridiculous. So that despite its and the many hundred comments per article good comments are to be found easier, there is a presentation system, according to whose valuations one can let the comments sort.

Name origin

Malda wanted to make itself merry with the URL over this syntax and confuse other humans. Because if one expresses it: HTTP colon slash slash slash DOT DOT org (for http://slashdot.org) is only difficult to guess, which is meant. Today he sees these however particularly as actually a Parodie even arranged, since nobody expresses more frequently this address.

The moreover one many rumors circulate, like the term e.g. slashdot themselves from teleprinter times derive and to the ASCII, than press agencies each message, which ran over the Ticker, with the two special characters/. (slash DOT) terminated.

A further rumor is that the name refers to implementing programs under Unix in the current listing, which is implemented with ./skriptname.

Software of the side

The software of Slashdot is called Slashcode, is written in Perl and finds for many other Websites use. In the German linguistic area OS Zine and Symlink pursue a similar concept as Slashdot, whereby of it only Symlink uses also Slashcode, OS Zine are PHP based.

Slashdot phenomena

Trollen - intentional provoking of disputes
Slashdot effect - one on Slashdot mentioned web page experiences an attack of visitors, which cannot be mastered by the server, the side cannot any longer be called up. This effect is called also Slashdotting.
The last option of an Slashdot inquiry often contains the name one of the Slashdot editors, as Running Gag CowboyNeal, with Symlink that of the Symlink editor Raffzahn.

The German counterpart concerning popularity and discussion topics is the Heise Newsticker.