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Flame wars can have a lasting impact on some internet communities where even once a flame war has concluded a division or even dissolution may occur. [ 3 ] The individuals that create an environment of flaming and hostility lead the readers to disengage with the offender and may potentially leave the message board and chat room.
Since at least 1985, many flame wars have occurred between those insisting that their editor of choice is the paragon of editing perfection, and insulting the opposing group accordingly. [2] Related battles have been fought over operating systems, programming languages , version control systems, and even source code indent style .
Mark Dery (born December 24, 1959) [1] is an American writer, lecturer and cultural critic.An early observer and critic of online culture, he helped to popularize the term "culture jamming" and is generally credited with having coined the term "Afrofuturism" in his essay "Black to the Future" in the anthology Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture. [2]
The Meow Wars were an early example of a flame war sent over Usenet which began in 1996 [1] and ended circa 1998. Its participants were known as "Meowers". [2]The war was characterized by posters from one newsgroup "crapflooding", or posting a large volume of nonsense messages, to swamp on-topic communication in other groups. [2]
Italy employed man-portable flamethrowers and L3 Lf flame tanks during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War of 1935 to 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, and during World War II. The L3 Lf flame tank was a CV-33 or CV-35 tankette with a flamethrower operating from the machine gun mount.
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The department was initially tasked with developing the uses of petroleum as a weapon of war, and it oversaw the introduction of a wide range of flame warfare weapons. Later in the war, the department was instrumental in the creation of the Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation (commonly known as FIDO) that cleared runways of fog allowing ...
The LPO-50 (Lyogkiy Pyekhotnyy Ognyemyot (Легкий Пехотный Огнемет), "Light Infantry Flamethrower") is a Soviet flamethrower.. Developed in 1953 to replace the ROKS-2/3 flamethrowers used during World War Two, [1] it was kept in the inventory well into the 1980s.