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September that never ended
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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All time since September 1993. One of the seasonal rhythms of the Usenet
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used to be the annual September influx of clueless newbies who, lacking any
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sense of netiquette , made a general nuisance of themselves. This coincided
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with people starting college, getting their first internet accounts, and
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plunging in without bothering to learn what was acceptable. These relatively
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small drafts of newbies could be assimilated within a few months. But in
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September 1993, AOL users became able to post to Usenet, nearly overwhelming
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the old-timers' capacity to acculturate them; to those who nostalgically
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recall the period before, this triggered an inexorable decline in the
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quality of discussions on newsgroups. Syn. eternal September. See also AOL!.
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