# Do we have a sense of how much activity the board has seen since the change?

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**Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-sense-of-how-much-activity-the-board-has-seen-since-the-change/921311/15 "2020-09-24T21:21:39Z")

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The link you posted is flat defective for both vBulletin and for Discourse. Though it’s obviously trying to be a vBulletin link. I wonder if you transcribed it badly.

I just Googled for the exact same thing [1920’s style death ray straightdope] and the first hit was the lead post in the Discourse version of the site:

> [@1920s Style Death-Ray?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-style-death-ray/307355):
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> I don’t know if this has been asked before, but what’s with the inordinately high number of references to ‘1920s Style Death-Ray’ around these parts. Here I am, a paying member and all and no one has let me in on this particular bit of secretive Dope-speak. Please, for the love of all that is young and beautiful, tell me what it means before I get zapped by one of those rays. And while you are at it, also kindly dispel my ignorance on the meaning of YMMV. Confounded acronyms. And cryptic refer…

The second hit was an earlier thread of almost the same title, and was also the Discourse version:

> [@1920s-style death ray? What?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/1920s-style-death-ray-what/199277):
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> I hate not getting references, and it seems that you young’uns are beating me to the game. I’ve noticed that people around the SDMB are referring to 1920s-style death rays. (As opposed to 1940s-style death rays (Now with Plutonium)?) I don’t understand it, and I would like a clarification. I’m feeling like Og now: Old and slow. Excuse me while I write some 4004 assembly.

The wiki for Edgar Cayce was Google’s next suggestion.

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