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Yup. Guess this is yet another moment to tell the next generation about it.
by leoh 3y ago
Yup. Guess this is yet another moment to tell the next generation about it.
- metaphor 3y agoIncidentally, appears to be only the second time it's been resubmitted in the month of September. The timing is thematically apt.
- blauditore 3y ago> The timing is thematically apt. What do you mean by that?
- badcppdev 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September Every September (in the 90s) a new cohort of University students would start and gain access to the internet, such as it was. Hence the reference to timing
- Sharlin 3y agoAs the Wikipedia article states, it's more about the specific period of late 1993–early 1994 when some large online service providers in the US started providing access to the greater internet, the USENET in particular, and masses of new (and usually clueless wrt established norms and netiquette) internet users flooded newsgroups and forever changed and disrupted their character and culture.
- nemo8551 3y agoTremendous, it’s almost as if this was planned. I await next week’s deployment.
- alexfoo 3y ago> I await next week’s deployment. Feelgood-karma-whoring-post-as-a-service
- rolfus 3y agoI'm pretty new to this community and this was my first exposure to this story. It's definitely going into my "anecdotes from the internet" mental repository.