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'''SlashNET''' is a medium-sized, independently-operated [[Internet Relay Chat]] (IRC) network. Originally sponsored by [[Slashdot]] and founded in 1998, in 1999 SlashNET split off to become its own entity.<ref name="DiBona"/> A few well-known communities and projects maintain an IRC presence at SlashNET, including #g7 (the IRC [[idle RPG]]), #totse ([[Totse]]), and #idiots-club ([[ZZT]] Community).

==Administration==

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==Forums==

SlashNET has been host to numerous IRC forums with famous people in the tech industry, including [[Ken Coar]], [[Marcel Gagne]], [[Richard Stallman]], [[Jamie Zawinski]], [[Matt Dillon (computer scientist)|Matt Dillon]] of [[DragonflyBSD]], [[Rob Malda|Rob 'CmdrTaco' Malda]] and Jeff 'Hemos' Bates of Slashdot, [[Rusty Foster]] and [[Dylan Griffiths|Dylan 'Inoshiro' Griffiths]] of [[kuro5hin]], and the [[distributed.net]] crew. [http://www.slashnet.org/forums/ Logs of past forums on SlashNET] may be found on the network's website.

==Events==

SlashNET, as the key communications method for Slashdot staff, was used in selecting and approving stories on the website. On [[9/11]], [[Rob Malda]], as "Daddy Pants" of the day, with final say on story acceptance, elected to focus Slashdot only on the unfolding news of the attacks. Telephone exchanges and cell networks were overburdened; many reports and eyewitness accounts came in via IRC. Many of these were posted on Slashdot. The site had 30 million page views for the day.<ref>DiBona, p. 392. </ref>

==References==

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<ref name="DiBona">{{cite book

|title=Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution

|page=391

|authors=DiBona, Chris; Cooper, Danese; Stone, Mark

|year= 2005

|publisher=[[O'Reilly Media]]

|edition= 1

|isdn= 978-0596008024

|url= http://books.google.com/books?id=q9GnNrq3e5EC&pg=PA391#v=onepage&f=false}}</ref>

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==External links==