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Re:New Word Order by jason-phillips on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:34PM (#36925970)
"Nucular"
Re:New Word Order by aionaiodfgnio on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:40PM (#36926014)
I got at least one inaccuracy in thirty seconds of play. I'm pretty sure Slashdot wasn't around in the '70s, yet the "Slashdot Effect" is claimed as a '70s neologism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1970s_neologisms?uses...

Re:New Word Order by dragonrancher on Saturday July 29, 2023 @07:53PM (#36926128)
It's an unfortunate side effect of the "flash crowd" and "Slashdot effect" articles being merged in the past. The editors at the time decided the terms were synonymous, but "Slashdot effect" won out as the dominant title. The "1970s neologisms" category tag must have come from the "flash crowd" article.
Re:New Word Order by fsckboy on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:43PM (#36926475)
it must be the "Wikipedia effect", because the term was "flash mob"
Re:New Word Order by nine_k on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:49PM (#36926921)
Flash mob (2003) is newer than Slashdot(199x).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob

Re:New Word Order by ZeroGravitas on Sunday July 30, 2023 @04:59AM (#36929283)
Re:New Word Order by KnobbleMcKnees on Sunday July 30, 2023 @10:04AM (#36931232)
If you read the second paragraph of the Wikipedia page for "slashdot effect" you'll see that the term was, in fact, "flash crowd".
Re:New Word Order by defrost on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:01PM (#36927005)
As a commentary on games and people, I played five iterations, I knew the correct answer for every iteration but got every iteration of gameplay 'wrong' as each time the first card I clicked on wasn't the answer I was pretty sure was correct, but the word I knew least about ..

It started with wanting to look up "Captology" which was clearly a much more recent term than Barnum's There's a sucker born every minute.

I had no intention to click, I really wanted to highlight and search rather than play.

Re:New Word Order by syndacks on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:18PM (#36926307)
Don’t wast your time with this shit
Re:New Word Order by fsckboy on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:42PM (#36926468)
1619?
Re:New Word Order by zamadatix on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:40PM (#36926456)
Neat idea. I think it'd be more fun with a minimum separation of 1 gap decade between each answer (especially with older phrases).
Re:New Word Order by EliseEmma on Sunday July 30, 2023 @02:09PM (#36934162)
Are these ideas still being perpetuated today?