There were traffic jams for the eclipses in 1970 and 1979, and that was *before* we had the potential for overnight viral social media frenzies.

"Eclipse Searches", by Randall Munroe, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License

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There were traffic jams for the eclipses in 1970 and 1979, and that was before we had the potential for overnight viral social media frenzies.