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You're right, author has rose-colored glasses. I almost thought it was a joke at first—2012 as the good ol' days? The internet ruined in the last three years? C
by binxbolling 11y ago
You're right, author has rose-colored glasses. I almost thought it was a joke at first—2012 as the good ol' days? The internet ruined in the last three years? Come on.
- madaxe_again 11y ago"Septembering" should be the term for this phenomenon.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoI would have thought that that would be over by now. Surely all of America is online by now already?
- acoard 11y agoEternal September doesn't have to do with new users to the internet, but new participants within a community. It's essentially the problem of digital immigration (which is much easier to do than physical immigration).
- JupiterMoon 11y agoI would argue that new users on a forum that have already used other forums will be easier to integrate than those who have never been online before. And those that have used multiple forums will be easier still as they will be used to the idea that different communities have different rules.
- hammock 11y agoWhy?
- madaxe_again 11y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
- doctorshady 11y agoI think her point is the internet has changed much more quickly since then, as opposed to earlier years.
- lamontcg 11y agoYeah except it hasn't changed more quickly. Back in the early 90s we had Eternal September, the NSFNet stopped running the backbone which led to SPAM (there was a time on the internet before SPAM), then the web was invented and someone wrote Netscape. That probably all happened within a period of three years or so. A few years later there were a thousand crappy Geocities sites and Yahoo and Amazon were founded.