Slashdot 's 10,000 th article was posted after two and a half years on February 24 , 2000 , and the 100,000 th article was posted on December 11 , 2009 after 12 years online . During the first 12 years , the most active story with the most responses posted was the post-2004 US Presidential Election article " Kerry Concedes Election To Bush " with 5,687 posts . This followed the creation of a new article section , ''politics.slashdot.org '' , created at the start of the 2004 election on September 7 , 2004 . Many of the most popular stories are political , with " Strike on Iraq " ( March 19 , 2003 ) the second-most-active article and " Barack Obama Wins US Presidency " ( November 5 , 2008 ) the third-most-active . The rest of the 10 most active articles are an article announcing the 2005 London bombings , and several articles about Evolution vs. Intelligent Design , Saddam Hussein 's capture , and '' Fahrenheit 9/11 '' . Articles about Microsoft and its Windows Operating System are popular . A thread posted in 2002 titled " What 's Keeping You On Windows ? " was the 10th-most-active story , and an article about Windows 2000/NT4 source-code leaks the most visited article with more than 680,000 hits . Some controversy erupted on March 9 , 2001 after an anonymous user posted the full text of Scientology 's " Operating Thetan Level Three " ( OT III ) document in a comment attached to a Slashdot article . The Church of Scientology demanded that Slashdot remove the document under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act . A week later , in a long article , Slashdot editors explained their decision to remove the page while providing links and information on how to get the document from other sources
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7 July 2005 London bombings
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