slashdot effectAn effect where a document on a {WWW} {server} is linked to from another, popular, site, with the resultant traffic overloading the server so that a connection cannot be made to it. This is especially likely if the server is running {Microsoft IIS}. The term was coined by readers of the {Unix} advocacy {web site} {slashdot.org (http://slashdot.org/)}. (1998-10-24)