I suspect that lightning talks first appeared at The Perl Conference in the late 1990s. Did @mjdominus organise the first ones?
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@mendel Ah. Wikipedia has an article. http://bit.ly/16f3S5S Says YAPC 2000.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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@davorg Aha!
5:45 AM - 15 May 2013
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