Bleeding Edge: A Novel
by Thomas Pynchon · 16 Sep 2013 · 532pp · 141,574 words
something kind of serious, we should meet. Leave your cell phone at home.” She can tell from his breathing that he knows what it is. • • • ETERNAL SEPTEMBER, dating from the high nineties, is a disused techies’ saloon tucked away between a barbershop and a necktie boutique half a block from a low
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?” He waits a fraction of a beat too long. “Lester saw too much.” She tries to remember that last time she and Lester talked, in Eternal September. There must have been a tell she missed, a lapse, something. “If he understood what he was seeing, wouldn’t he have told somebody?” “He
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
by Walter Isaacson · 6 Oct 2014 · 720pp · 197,129 words
?” he would ask Case half jokingly.36 Case would shake his head. He knew that there was a pony in it. AL GORE AND THE ETERNAL SEPTEMBER Online services such as AOL developed independently of the Internet. An entanglement of laws, regulations, traditions, and practices made it impossible for commercial companies to
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its members access to the newsgroups and bulletin boards of the Internet. In Internet lore, the deluge was called, especially by contemptuous veteran netizens, the Eternal September. The name referred to the fact that every September a new wave of freshmen would enter universities and, from their campus networks, get access to
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clue if they stood in a clue field in clue mating season, dressed as a clue, and drenched with clue pheromones.”39 In fact, the Eternal September’s democratization of the Internet was a good thing, but it took a while for veterans to appreciate this. This opening up of the Internet
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partisanship accompanied by a lack of faith in what government could do. That’s why it’s useful to reflect on what led to the Eternal September of 1993. Over the course of more than three decades, the federal government, working with private industry and research universities, had designed and built a
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Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web
by Cole Stryker · 14 Jun 2011 · 226pp · 71,540 words
surprised to find the opposite. “I had no idea the Internet would expand to the scale it is today. Absolutely no idea,” says Figallo. The Eternal September Throughout the late ’80s and early ’90s, universities granted their students access to Usenet and other BBSes. Every September these online communities would be flooded
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message to the alt.folklore.computers newsgroup: “September 1993 will go down in net.history as the September that never ended.” And thus the phrase eternal September was born. It’s something that every successful Internet community experiences, but this represented a massive shift in demographics for the web. The Internet was
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. This led many users leave 4chan for other chan boards. It has gone down in chan lore as /b/day. 4chan’s Eternal September Moment If one had to pick an eternal September period for 4chan, it began in 2007. That was the year of lolcats and Tay “Chocolate Rain” Zonday. Most importantly, it
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, and he’s been online since ‘93, when he used a text browser. He remembers Usenet’s eternal September, which he, perhaps jokingly, calls “the worst thing that ever happened to the Internet.” Usenet before eternal september? Very few stupid questions, mostly just good chat and sharing interesting files. it was quite a good
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
by Gretchen McCulloch · 22 Jul 2019 · 413pp · 106,479 words
ever been asked to absorb.” Existing netizens were unable to fully acculturate this influx and were Not Pleased by the results, dubbing the period thereafter Eternal September. Although counter-memetics may not have become quite the noble cause Godwin envisioned, the idea of memes—the meme of memes, if you will—certainly
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connection of the name “meme” with the kind of cultural replication that happens on the internet. All the way back to Godwin’s Law and Eternal September, making and sharing memes is about policing what’s in and what’s out of internet culture. This became difficult as aspects of internet culture
To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
by Bethany Moreton · 15 May 2009 · 391pp · 22,799 words
audio version was circulated on cassettes beginning in 1977; Burks and Burks, Damaged Disciples, 122. 72. David Waterman, “The Care and Feeding of Growing Christians,” Eternity, September 1979, 16. 73. Joel A. Carpenter, Revive Us Again: The Reawakening of American Fundamentalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 306 n.17. 74. Bob
This Is for Everyone: The Captivating Memoir From the Inventor of the World Wide Web
by Tim Berners-Lee · 8 Sep 2025 · 347pp · 100,038 words
1994, destroyed netiquette for ever, replacing it with something far more raucous, funny and crude. Seasoned internet users called this change the ‘Eternal September’. While some computer scientists objected to Eternal September, it was fantastic for the web. I had deliberately designed my protocols and creative tools to be simple to use, and a
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The Dark Net
by Jamie Bartlett · 20 Aug 2014 · 267pp · 82,580 words
dissident movements. fn2 September 1993, the month America On-Line started to offer its subscribers access to Usenet, is etched into internet folklore as ‘the eternal September’, when newcomers logged on to the internet en masse. Chapter 1 Unmasking the Trolls ‘At the top of the tree of life there isn’t
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called informally at the time the ‘Internetwork’, and was shortened to the ‘Internet’ in 1974. p.6 ‘September 1993, the date . . .’ One Usenet group – www.eternal-september.org – gives the date, as of writing, as September 7247, 1993. Further information about ‘the September that never ends’, in Dery, M., Escape Velocity, p
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
by Nadia Eghbal · 3 Aug 2020 · 1,136pp · 73,489 words
yet learned how the group operates, it is rational for established group members to distrust them.”128 The newcomer effect is also known as the “Eternal September” problem, a term coined by members of the early online community Usenet, which experienced an influx of newcomers every September due to new students getting
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of early highway system itself) began offering access to Usenet, the service provider exposed the community to a constant stream of new users, creating an “eternal September.” Kraut and Resnick further suggest that successful online communities need to “designate formal sanctioning rules so that those imposing sanctions have legitimacy,” noting that this
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
by Joanne McNeil · 25 Feb 2020 · 239pp · 80,319 words
“run to the Hard Rock Cafe” once they arrived in a foreign country. The CEO’s comments confirmed all the suspicions of longtime internet users. “Eternal September”—a term that fittingly outlived Usenet—was coined in the fall of 1993, when AOL offered Usenet access to its users, disrupting countless communities; the
We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin · 1 Oct 2018
been dabbling in programming since he was eight years old. His dad encouraged early web browsing by giving young Huffman access to AOL—before the “Eternal September” of 1993 when AOL opened up Usenet access and connected millions of new users to the Internet proper. Summers with his dad were time for
Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age
by Vauhini Vara · 8 Apr 2025 · 301pp · 105,209 words
Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media
by Tarleton Gillespie · 25 Jun 2018 · 390pp · 109,519 words
Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
by Kyle Chayka · 15 Jan 2024 · 321pp · 105,480 words
Orwell Versus the Terrorists: A Digital Short
by Jamie Bartlett · 12 Feb 2015 · 50pp · 15,603 words