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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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