Slashdot covers the Mars Polar Lander (via Slashdot) / Dec 1999

In my capacity as webmaster of the Mars Polar Lander, I submitted a note to Slashdot. Although our amazing distributed website took quite a beating (with some estimated 1 in 4 Internet users trying to access it simultaneously), the Lander itself sadly crashed. On the bright side, I got mentioned in a Sun press release because of the Sun Netra T1 servers they gave us to host the website!

You can read more about the architecture behind the site in "Application of a Distributed Web Site Acceleration: Mars Polar Lander".