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[–] everett@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

1999

It's worth noting that its success might have prevented the common term "incel" from coming about.

[–] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wasn't Incel originally coined by a blogger in the 80s?

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No. Web was published in 1991. Web 2.0 happened much later.

The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger[13] on 17 December 1997— log in this case nods to a ship's log, a written record of a ship's navigation and speed read from rope knots off a special weighed tool called a chip log.[14][page needed] The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999.[15][16][17]

Bloggers are a post-2000 thing.

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

I really have no idea, but "blogger in the 80s" is kind of hilarious. The coining of a term can be hard to pin down, but it also matters a lot less than when it takes off. Looking at this ngram I think we can place the rise, when most people would become aware of it, in the early 2010s.

[–] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 12 points 1 month ago

The Phase II clinical trial is evaluating the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and efficacy of Incel administered intravenously

Mainlining incel, damn that doesn't sound great at all