War of the Worlds

Just playing with Sora One thing I was curious about was whether the title War of the Worlds influenced people to start saying "First World War." It sounds like a play on "world war," but the timing doesn’t work — so it must actually be the other way around, right? Anyway, I poked around a bit and found a whole bunch of authors from the 1880s and 1890s writing what we’d now call Tom Clancy-style…