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> since ~92

Thus you would remember a bit of the tail end of the era before Eternal September.

Normally, September was the time when a crop of new students would get accounts at universities and step into the world of Usenet for the first time, behaving like asses.

In September 1993, AOL connected to Usenet. That became known as Eternal September.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

The online world we have today is basically the continuation of Eternal September, reaching further depths of deterioration.



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