February 2012
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Lightning Talks To Remember →
A History Lesson
Lightning Talks first appeared at PyCon (Python Conference) in 1997, at that point it was just called “Short Talks”. The name “Lightning Talks” was first coined by Mark Jason Dominus, one of the leading Perl developers, for a similar session at Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC) in 2000.
Lightning Talks gradually became a meme at tech conferences and...