Many parts of the GameStop story - the wild swings over the past couple of weeks in shares of the video game retailer and a few dozen other out-of-favour stocks - are not exactly new.
Long before Reddit, the Yahoo message boards of the late 1990s democratised the expression of strong opinions about stocks.
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