Mainstream media'd. Meaning someone from the mainstream media posted a link to that post, and the surge in traffic made everything slow.
Main-stream media.
I was searching on google trying to figure this out myself...
Slashdotted
Digged
Reddited
Pick one
They aren't considered MSM.
NYT, Slate, Guardian, etc., rather.
It was a historical reference
2nded, I haven't heard 'Slashdotted' to mean getting traffic from slashdot.org in a while, but it does seem to have stuck as the means of saying we got a ton of traffic from some other website linking to us.
Your point is pretty reasonable, considering the meme sprang to popular awareness in it's 'Slashdotted' form, doubtless melting many servers down prior to appearing in the MSM.