I suspect that lightning talks first appeared at The Perl Conference in the late 1990s. Did @mjdominus organise the first ones?
@davorg pretty sure he did (and that they started in 1999 or 2000 in PGH)
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@mendel Oh. So, that's YAPC, not TPC. -
@davorg oh wait yeah. Now I'm not sure. - 2 more replies
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