[kirse]

I don't know about TV Tropes "coining" the concept, I had already discussed this 5+ years ago wrt to computers and we even had a pitch for the "Flanders Threshold"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13353106

I'd accept that Flanders Computing is an offshoot of the overall much-later-coined flanderization process.

[hackingthelema]

'Flanderization' as a term was on TV Tropes as early as 2006:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060512061148/https://tvtropes....

[kirse]

Well then, I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids.

[danrocks]

Also a TV trope: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouMeddlingKids