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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>flash crowd</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="flarp.html" title="flarp"/><link rel="next" href="flat.html" title="flat"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">flash crowd</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flarp.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="flat.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="flash-crowd"/><dt xmlns="" id="flash-crowd"><b>flash crowd</b></dt></dt><dd><p> Larry Niven's 1973 SF short story <i class="citetitle">Flash Crowd</i>
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predicted that one consequence of cheap teleportation would be huge crowds
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materializing almost instantly at the sites of interesting news stories.
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Twenty years later the term passed into common use on the Internet to
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describe exponential spikes in website or server usage when one passes a
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certain threshold of popular interest (what this does to the server may
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also be called <a href="../S/slashdot-effect.html"><i class="glossterm">slashdot effect</i></a>). It has been
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pointed out that the effect was anticipated years earlier in Alfred Bester's
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1956 <i class="citetitle">The Stars My Destination</i>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="flarp.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="flat.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">flarp<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>flat</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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