An effect where a document on a WWWserver 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)