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Weren't those binaries only in the alt.* hierarchy though? There were plenty of servers that decided not to carry alt.*.

• narag 4y ago
  Yeah, the infamous September was really a thing, more than sharing. Another factor was that maintaining a news server was a PITA for the ISPs.
  • glenngillen 4y ago
    Eternal September for those curious to learn more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
    • pmarreck 4y ago
      I was not aware of this phenomenon and I was there... lol. (My first email address was in 1990, from my college)
      • jwiz 4y ago
        My freshman September was the Eternal September.
        • midasuni 4y ago
          Me too!
        • pmarreck 4y ago
          Honestly, the quality (and nerdiness) of discourse at Reddit was the same as the Internet pre-Eternal September until the Gonewild subreddit happened.
    • neuronexmachina 4y ago
      I know it isn't actually, but I like to pretend the Green Day song "Wake me up when September ends" is a reference to that.
      • tomatocracy 4y ago
        Heh. I thought I was the only one who did this!
• Lammy 4y ago
  > There were plenty of servers that decided not to carry alt.*. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_8_(Usenet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_8_(Usenet)