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If you were on Usenet before '93 the words still haunt you
by bandrami 5mo ago
If you were on Usenet before '93 the words still haunt you
- TZubiri 5mo agoI was very much unborn in '93, could you share the folk history for the record?
- ZeWaka 5mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
- dwd 5mo agoJoined Usenet in 1990 and for a few years it was great. I always wonder whether HN suffers from periodic influxes of newbies who don't get it yet and rile up the regulars.
- BLKNSLVR 5mo agoThere was the Reddit Exodus of 2023 and there seems to be a fair few new accounts posting recently, which feels like an Attempted Agentic Takeover.
- lmm 5mo agoIt's not periodic so much as continuous. But yes, HN is constantly where Reddit was about 3 years ago and correspondingly declining. E.g. see the rise in "underrated comment" type comments lately.
- intended 5mo agoIts one of my favorite parts of online trivia.
- intended 5mo agoI phrased it poorly, I haven’t heard the term sloptember. Eternal September is the kind of trivia that let me know if someone is a grey beard or not.