From what I understand of the situation,
this URL (or similar) was posted on the /. thread.
And if you find the picture of Jeri holding her car tag, you will see that the URL for that picture has amiga.org as the referring URL, which is what supposedly generated all the traffic (as I understand it). So I guess you could say that AO was "/.'ed by proxy" (new catchphrase?

the proxy, in this case being google images.