Eternal September (15)

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On The Elitist Superstructure of DQN an organization and board that does not exist, the day counter increases without bound while the year remains 1993 and the month indicates September. This is in remembrance of the culture shock that happened in 1993 when the popular Internet service provider AOL offered access to Usenet to its customers. This important date will forever mark one of the steps of the Internet integrating into the lives of the general public.

Before 1993, Usenet was limited to mostly University use. Only staff, students and possibly other specially privileged people had access to any newsgroups or networks. The influx of users may have led to the decline of any existing culture; Before 1993, new people only came every September due to the new freshman students in the fall and they learned the culture or left by the end of the month, give or take. With Usenet access to all of the AOL customers there was a constant influx of new users, overwhelming any safeguards that were in place to handle new users. As the new people never quieted down September 1993 was dubbed Eternal September.

In this thread post
  • Your own experiences relating to this event
  • Resources about learning what Usenet, the Internet or other forms of social media were like before Eternal September overwhelmed and changed any existing culture.
  • Information about the impact of Eternal September on more widely known events such as the Dot Com Bubble
  • Other people's experience's and wisdom about Internet culture predating September 1993


I wasn't alive when this happened and I know next to nothing about what the Internet looked like before its current incarnation of Web 2.0, and made this thread to learn more.
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