There’s just too fucking much of it, history. There’s some pretty important bits, like the Holocaust and how Colombus was a shithead, and occasionally the world’s countries get super pissed at each other and have a war about it. But the esoterica of potted meat food product, 70s British comedy troupes, and their collective effect on internet lexicography is a bit much for me. Hell, your “eternal September” wording is probably another such invocation I haven’t the memory to recognize.
Back in the old Usenet days, access was mostly limited to dedicated professionals and hobbyists, who had over time developed a certain “netiquette”.
Every September, though, new students got Usenet access, unwittingly disturbing the peace and sowing chaos until they learned the proper way to speak and behave themselves.
Around late 1993 and early 1994, though, ISPs started providing Usenet access to their customers, flooding the network with an unending flow of inexperienced users most of which would never learn the proper ways. An eternal September, as it were. And thus the Internet was ruined.
There’s just too fucking much of it, history. There’s some pretty important bits, like the Holocaust and how Colombus was a shithead, and occasionally the world’s countries get super pissed at each other and have a war about it. But the esoterica of potted meat food product, 70s British comedy troupes, and their collective effect on internet lexicography is a bit much for me. Hell, your “eternal September” wording is probably another such invocation I haven’t the memory to recognize.
Back in the old Usenet days, access was mostly limited to dedicated professionals and hobbyists, who had over time developed a certain “netiquette”.
Every September, though, new students got Usenet access, unwittingly disturbing the peace and sowing chaos until they learned the proper way to speak and behave themselves.
Around late 1993 and early 1994, though, ISPs started providing Usenet access to their customers, flooding the network with an unending flow of inexperienced users most of which would never learn the proper ways. An eternal September, as it were. And thus the Internet was ruined.
there keeps on being more. Oh man I wonder what history classes will be like in a hundred years if they exist.