Slopfest #75 · 2001 · Vienna
Citation Needed
Anyone could now edit the encyclopedia. Anyone did. Our festival history was never the same.
#75The only copy was taped to a Würstelstand. It rained.
Museum status: Declared a national treasure by the committee, unanimously, of one.
- Venue
- MuseumsQuartier, in its opening year
- Attendance
- 16,300
- Also spotted
- A Shakira 'Whenever, Wherever' poster next to the Wikipedia terminal. Citation needed.
- Fun fact
- 1 sheet, 3,400 edits, 1 locked zeppelin
What happened
Guests wrote the festival program themselves, on one large sheet of paper, with a pen on a string. By 11 p.m. it listed four keynotes, a zeppelin and a claim that Mozart founded Slopfest. An edit war over the zeppelin ran until 4 a.m. The zeppelin section has been locked ever since.
Elsewhere in 2001
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