In a previous episode, I went through a list of eponymous laws.

These were laws, general rules, and sometimes even scientific laws that were named after people.

However, the eponymous laws that I went through only scratched the surface of the eponymous laws that are out there.

There are all sorts of laws, rules, and dictums that bear someone's name.

So because it was so popular the first time, hang on for eponymous laws part two on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. We might as well start this episode of eponymous laws with one of the laws that's very familiar to anyone who has spent any amount of time on the internet, Godwin's Law.

Godwin's Law has become a central part of internet culture, and it actually dates back to before the

World Wide Web was invented. The law was coined by an American attorney named Mike Godwin, and it was with respect to Usenet groups at the time.

However, since then it's been applied to any sort of online discussion forum or chat room.

Godwin's law states that as any online discussion grows longer, regardless of topic,

the probability of a comparison to Nazis or Adolf Hitler approaches 100%.

It's also very similar to the logical fallacy which has become known as Reductio Ad Hitlerum.

Godwin's Law was actually added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2012.

There was a paper published in 2021 by a team of research. for an English dictionary in 2012.

There was a paper published in 2021 by a team of researchers from Harvard trying to verify

Godwin's law by analyzing posts on Reddit, but they couldn't find anything statistically

meaningful. That being said, if you've spent

any amount of time online, there's a good chance you've probably seen Godwin's law in action.

Another law of the internet is one that you might not have heard of but one that you'll probably grasp immediately

Cunningham's law

Cunningham's law was coined by an American computer programmer and the creator of the first wiki Ward Cunningham.

As with Godwin's law, this two dates back to the early days of the Internet on Usenet groups.

Cunningham's law states,

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