Prior Art Debates
Comments debating whether a featured technology, feature, idea, or event was truly novel or had existing precedents, prior versions, or was done before.
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That perhaps it was already done before...
This was possible before, though
Same, but a long time ago (before it was cool to do so)
wait they didn't do that before???
They did, it was something else before
there were a few before but not many.
Wasn't this already known (or presumed) before?
Why was this not a thing before?
It's been around before anyone was suggesting to join too...
Wasn't that the previous one?