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

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.

The name was derived in the same manner as Slashdot, with the Spanish "http://" pronounced "hache-te-te-pe-dos puntos-barra-barra" and "http://barrapunto.com/" pronounced "hache-te-te-pe-dos puntos-barra-barra-barra-punto-punto-com". Barrapunto ran Slash, the open source software used by Slashdot, and materials were 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]

After six years of silence, in January 2018, the website's Twitter account published one tweet to announce a technical stop and it has been down ever since.[4] In August 2019, and in the absence of an official statement on the matter, the website stopped responding.[5]

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.
  4. ↑ barrapunto ya no es lo que era [@barrapunto] (January 17, 2018). "En los próximos días barrapunto migrará de máquina. O sea, esta vez las desconexiones serán deliberadas. Seguiremos informando" [In the next few days barrapunto will migrate from the machine. In other words, this time the disconnections will be deliberate. We will keep reporting.] (Tweet) (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 October 2021. Retrieved 4 December 2022 – via Twitter.
  5. ↑ "Ha muerto barrapunto? | Menéame". www.meneame.net. Retrieved 2023-05-31.


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