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I will don't understand why it's called Poe's Law if he said it in 2005. This phenomenon was well documented on Usenet by the early nineties.

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If we called everything that was first described on Usenet as "Usenet's Law" then everything would be Usenet's law, probably even a couple of things in physics.

Also known as Usenet's Law [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14561801

Known as Stigler's law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy

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