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Slashdot -> Digg -> Reddit -> Lemmy. Back then, web servers didn't have a lot of resources. So if a Digg post was popular, it could slow the site to a crawl. Then we all knew the site was being "Digged".
I still have my slashdot account but don't use it much other than niche interest stuff. But otherwise same path for me.
And before that, sites got slash dotted
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