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In what year did Mike Godwin formulate Godwin's law? Answer with the four-digit year only.

Answer

1,990

1990 uint256

year
The Gregorian calendar year in which Mike Godwin formulated Godwin's law.
evidence
This is an off-chain panel fact; the pinned Ethereum block window is copied exactly but is not used to compute the year.
sources
mikegodwin.substack.com, en.wikipedia.org, mike godwin, 'godwin's ethic, part 1' (https://mikegodwin.substack.com/p/from-a-law-to-an-ethic); mike godwin, 'i created godwin's law in 1990' (https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/i-created-godwins-law-in-1990-but-it-wasnt-a-prediction-it-was-a-warning/)., mike godwin, 'i created godwin's law in 1990, but it wasn't a prediction – it was a warning' (r street institute, https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/i-created-godwins-law-in-1990-but-it-wasnt-a-prediction-it-was-a-warning/); corroborated by mike godwin, 'godwin's ethic, part 1: from a law to an ethic' (https://mikegodwin.substack.com/p/from-a-law-to-an-ethic), mike godwin, https://mikegodwin.substack.com/p/from-a-law-to-an-ethic (states he formulated it in 1990); u.s. holocaust memorial museum interview, https://www.ushmm.org/es/antisemitism/podcast/voices-on-antisemitism/mike-godwin (godwin says he tried to create it near 1990)., mike godwin, https://mikegodwin.substack.com/p/from-a-law-to-an-ethic (states ‘in 1990, ... i formulated’); ebsco research starters, https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/godwins-law (states formulated in 1990)., mike godwin, r street institute, https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/i-created-godwins-law-in-1990-but-it-wasnt-a-prediction-it-was-a-warning/, mike godwin, r street institute, https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/i-created-godwins-law-in-1990-but-it-wasnt-a-prediction-it-was-a-warning/; ebsco, godwin's law, https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/godwins-law, mike godwin, r street institute, ‘i created godwin’s law in 1990, but it wasn’t a prediction – it was a warning’ (2016): https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/i-created-godwins-law-in-1990-but-it-wasnt-a-prediction-it-was-a-warning/, mike godwin, r street institute, ‘i created godwin’s law in 1990, but it wasn’t a prediction – it was a warning’ (may 31, 2016): https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/i-created-godwins-law-in-1990-but-it-wasnt-a-prediction-it-was-a-warning/, mike godwin, ‘i created godwin’s law in 1990, but it wasn’t a prediction – it was a warning,’ r street institute (2016): https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/i-created-godwins-law-in-1990-but-it-wasnt-a-prediction-it-was-a-warning/, mike godwin, ‘i created godwin’s law in 1990, but it wasn’t a prediction – it was a warning,’ r street institute: https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/i-created-godwins-law-in-1990-but-it-was-a-prediction-it-was-a-warning/, wikipedia article "godwin's law" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law), which states mike godwin formulated the adage in 1990, wikipedia article 'godwin's law' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law), corroborated by mike godwin's own essay 'meme, counter-meme', wired, 1994 (https://www.wired.com/1994/10/godwin-if-2/); both state godwin coined the law in 1990, wikipedia article 'godwin's law' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law), which states mike godwin coined the law in 1990, wikipedia article 'godwin's law' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law), which states mike godwin formulated the adage in 1990 while an attorney and founding employee of the electronic frontier foundation, wikipedia article 'godwin's law' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law), which states mike godwin formulated the law in 1990, wikipedia article 'godwin's law' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law), which states mike godwin formulated the law in 1990 while observing usenet discussions, wikipedia article 'godwin's law' (states mike godwin coined the adage in 1990); corroborated by wired magazine's 'jargon watch' usage history, wikipedia, "godwin's law" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law) — states mike godwin coined the law in 1990; corroborated by godwin's own retrospective essay "meme, counter-meme" in wired (1994), which recounts formulating it in 1990 on usenet., wikipedia, "godwin's law" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law): "godwin's law ... is a adage ... coined by mike godwin in 1990.", wikipedia, "godwin's law" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law): states mike godwin coined the adage in 1990., wikipedia, "godwin's law" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law): states mike godwin coined the law in 1990, originally published in the usenet newsgroup talk.bizarre and later in wired magazine., wikipedia, "godwin's law" article (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law): states mike godwin formulated the law in 1990., wikipedia, "godwin's law" article: mike godwin states he coined the law in 1990, inspired by online usenet/bbs debates comparing things to nazism; widely corroborated by godwin's own 1994 wired essay "meme, counter-meme" which recounts formulating the rule in 1990., wikipedia, "godwin's law" article: states mike godwin coined the law in 1990, citing his own account of formulating it based on observing usenet discussions in the late 1980s., wikipedia, "godwin's law" article: states mike godwin coined the law in 1990, originally in reference to usenet discussions., wikipedia, "godwin's law" article: states mike godwin formulated the law in 1990, originally posted to usenet newsgroups., wikipedia, "godwin's law": "promulgated by american attorney and author mike godwin in 1990" and "he stated that he introduced godwin's law in 1990 as an experiment in memetics" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law, revision 1376744917), wikipedia, 'godwin's law' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law): 'godwin's law ... was coined by mike godwin in 1990'; corroborated by mike godwin's own essay 'meme, counter-meme' (wired, 1994) recounting he devised the saying in 1990., wikipedia, 'godwin's law' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law): 'godwin's law ... was coined by mike godwin in 1990.' corroborated by mike godwin's own retrospective, 'meme, counter-meme', wired (1994)., wikipedia, 'godwin's law' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law): 'godwin's law ... was coined by the american attorney and author mike godwin in 1990.', wikipedia, 'godwin's law' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/godwin%27s_law): promulgated by mike godwin in 1990; cross-checked against the meme.com entry https://meme.com/memes/godwins-law, wikipedia, 'godwin's law' article: 'godwin's law ... was coined by mike godwin in 1990.', wikipedia, 'godwin's law' article: 'the rule was originally defined... by mike godwin in 1990.', wikipedia, 'godwin's law' article: states mike godwin formulated the adage in 1990, www.rstreet.org, www.wired.com

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