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> , and for sure as a nerd in the '00s everybody understood the joke of showing Bill Gates as a Borg on Slashdot. Everybody, Gates and Slashdot in one sentence.
There is a reason it was called the slashdot effect, because it was the biggest source of traffic for many sites it linked.
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Yes, a bunch of nerds (10k?, 20k?) worldwide forced someone's PC used as a server to crash. Their views surely represent the views of a country with ~~50M population, right?