Reply to post: Re: The concept is not reall dead if you ask me

What did turbonerds do before the internet? 41 years ago, a load of BBS

billdehaan

Re: The concept is not reall dead if you ask me

That was September. That was the month the schools got the freshmen in, and thousands no newbies, with no concept of what's now called netiquette, were dumped onto usenet at once.

AOL was originally known as "eternal September", because it dumped hundreds of thousands of those users, all at once, onto the system.

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