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Started by Ayodele Bankole (@ayo_archives) ·

Eternal September: the month that never ended

Every September a new batch of college freshmen got internet access and had to learn Usenet manners, and by October things calmed down. Then in 1993–94 commercial providers like AOL opened Usenet to everyone and the September never ended.

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How I got here

Started with
Why do old internet people complain about 'Eternal September'?
Ended at
AOL

The Trail

  1. “what does eternal september mean” (google.com)
  2. Eternal September (en.wikipedia.org)
  3. Usenet (en.wikipedia.org)
  4. Great Renaming (en.wikipedia.org)

    1987, when usenet got reorganized into the comp. / sci. / rec. style names

  5. Alt.* hierarchy (en.wikipedia.org)
  6. AOL (en.wikipedia.org)

    the gateway opened in early 1994 and the newbies just kept coming

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