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According to Wikipedia (America's online reference for 750 years!) Mike Godwin coined this in 1990.
Here's where I said it in 1989:
Newsgroups: news.groups
From: richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton)
Message-ID: <21000@gryphon.COM>
Date: 16 Oct 89 17:48:06 GMT
Local: Mon, Oct 16 1989 1:48 pm
Subject: Re: .aquaria
In article <1989Oct16.115545.12...@agate.berkeley.edu> gsmith@garnet.berkeley.edu (Gene W. Smith) writes:
> People voted for Hitler as Chancellor too. A vote is not to
>determine what is best, or what is right, but what is going to
>happen. A winning vote is not evidence that the winning voters
>were correct.
You can tell when a USENET discussion is getting old when one of
the participents drags out Hitler and the Nazis.
One of these days Mike Godwin is going to say something original or funny and I plan to take credit for is as "Sexton's Law".
See for yourself in google or read the what happened the day I met Godwin
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