Barrapunto

Barrapunto was a Spanish-language Slashdot-like website, founded on 7 June 1999, which is part of a complex social network among Spanish-language websites.[1] In 2006, it was the winner of a 20Blogs Award from the online newspaper 20 minutos, in the category "Mejor comunidad de un blog" (best blog community).[2] The site and its community have also been the subject of both English- and Spanish-language academic research.

Web traffic graph illustrating the "Efecto Barrapunto", analogous to the Slashdot effect.

The name is derived in the same manner as Slashdot, with the Spanish "http://" pronounced "hache-te-te-pe-dos puntos-barra-barra" and "https://web.archive.org/web/20040819080505/http://barrapunto.com/" pronounced "hache-te-te-pe-dos puntos-barra-barra-barra-punto-punto-com". Barrapunto runs Slash, the open source software used by Slashdot, and materials are published under CC-BY.

Barrapunto was founded by six professionals and teachers in 1999 as a meeting point for the free software community. By 2005 more than half a million comments had been posted and almost 40,000 stories.[3]

In January 2018 the website Twitter account announced a technical stop and has been down since then.

Notes and references
  1. Social Network of barrapunto Archived November 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, visualcomplexity. Accessed July 27, 2008.
  2. Premios 20Blogs Archived 2008-10-06 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed July 27, 2008.
  3. "Barrapunto celebra su sexto aniversario". Noticiasdot.com. Retrieved 2008-07-27.
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