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Not that it matters too much, but the 'Slashdot Effect' existed before HN was online.

Slashdot was founded in 1997, 'Slashdot Effect' (according to wikipedia) was coined in 1999 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#:~:text=This%20was%20....)

Hackernews was founded 2007.