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What?
They didn't call World War One World War One during World War One?
Fuckin retcons, right? Like when The Star Wars suddenly became "Episode 4" pssshh.
no, just like we didn't (and still don't) call what was happening a few years ago "the first COVID-19 pandemic"
I will now.
I did.
They did!
Ernst Haeckel said it in 1914