Who made speedrunning popular?

In 1982, gaming enthusiast, Todd Rogers, did just that with a world-record time of 5.51s. This brought Rogers fame in the gaming community and led him to become the world's first paid professional gamer. It wasn't until the 1990s, with the help of the internet, that speedrunning truly began to take off.

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Has stranger things made dungeons and dragons more popular?
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How popular is speedrunning?
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