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)