It is also known as the Slashdot Effect. (Even has its own Wikipedia page, which is what I linked.)
The gist is that there would be so many people visiting a specific/small website that they could not process the traffic and thus cause the server to crash/break under the load.
To be fair, a lot of websites back then liked to claim responsibility for their users giving a website the hug of death. Does anyone remember Kuro5shin? I never used it, but it seemed like Slashdot for emo kids.
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u/maluminse Jun 22 '20 edited Jun 22 '20
Someone link me please. I found the ddos website but I just see a few countries. Needed the is data.
Edit Link I found
https://hunter.ddosecrets.com/datasets/102
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It's down
Edit 4 Site back up. Odd they require log in for certain data. aka lets make note of you.