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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.
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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"
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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

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Re:New Word Order by ZeroGravitas on Sunday July 30, 2023 @04:59AM (#36929283)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Crowd
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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".
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